Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-02-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Embassy Bangladesh in Egypt
Affected country: Bangladesh
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Researchers from Trustwave reveal that the web site for the Bangladeshi Embassy in Cairo has been compromised so that it distributes malicious Word documents, which install malware downloaders onto an infected computer.