Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-01-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: ABN Ambro
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: ABN Ambro is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack. The wave of cyberattacks comes just days after local media reported that Dutch intelligence agency AIVD spied on Russia-linked hacker group Cozy Bear, also known as APT29, as early as 2014.