Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: German Aerospace Centre
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Germany's space research centre in Cologne is the victim of a co-ordinated and covert targeted attack carried out by state-sponsored hackers, according to a Der Spiegel report. Suspects are directed to China.