Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-03-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Douglas County
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Hainan State Security Department (APT40)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Douglas County is the victim of a cyberattack by Hafnium, a Chinese threat actor. The attackers exploited a weakness in Microsoft servers.