Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-06-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Yandex
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Western intelligence
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Reuters reveal that hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018. Apparently the attack was carried out with a Regin variant.