Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Israeli defense industry
Affected country: Israel
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Israel claimed Wednesday that it had thwarted a cyberattack by a North Korea-linked hacking group on its classified defense industry. However, security researchers at ClearSky said the hackers penetrated the computer systems and were likely to have stolen a large amount of classified data.