Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Spiez Laboratory
Affected country: Switzerland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: GRU Main Special Center for Special Technologies (Unit 74455) (SANDWORM)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The state-run Spiez laboratory near Bern, which analyzed the nerve agent samples from Salisbury, reveals to have been targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government ahead of a conference of chemical and biological warfare.