Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Telegram
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: IT Army of Ukraine
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Ukraine
Description: IT Army of Ukraine claims to have conducted a hack and leak operation against a Russian social media application. The operation consisted of exploiting a vulnerability in the beta version of the software, and the subsequent infection of all beta testers with an updated malicious version of the application.