Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-04-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: TV5Monde
Affected country: France
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation,External Denial of Service,Internal Denial of Service, Physical Attack
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: GRU 85th Main Special Service Center (Unit 26165) (FANCYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: TV5Monde, a multi-station television network headquartered in Paris, France, has 11 of its TV stations taken off the air. In the same time it suffers an internal IT outage alongside a social media and website takeover. The Cyber Caliphate, a group of Pro-ISIS hackers claims responsibility. However, it was later revelated that the hack was a false flag operation carried out by APT28.