Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-01-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Burisma
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: GRU 85th Main Special Service Center (Unit 26165) (FANCYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Researchers from Area 1 reveal that Russian spies from GRU are suspected of trying to hack into Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company with whom Hunter Biden worked.