Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-08-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ukraine Military
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: GRU Main Special Center for Special Technologies (Unit 74455) (SANDWORM)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Ukrainian security services say they prevented an attempt by Russian state-controlled hackers from the Sandworm group to break into the battlefield management system used by the Ukrainian military.