Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: VSDC
Affected country: New Zealand
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Research from Qihoo 360 Total Security reveal that hackers have breached the website of VSDC, a popular company that provides free audio and video conversion and editing software. Three different incidents have been recorded during which hackers changed the download links on the VSDC website with links that initiated downloads from servers operated by the attackers.