Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-10-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Japanese government agencies
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Jinan State Security Department (APT17)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Researchers at JPCERT reveal the details of a campaign targeting Japanese government agencies and exploiting a vulnerability in the local Sanshiro spreadsheet application (CVE-2014-0810).