Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Two unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
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