Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Gilead Sciences
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. in recent weeks, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus.