Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-01-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: Samsung
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: Genesis Day
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: China
Description: A group of Russian hacktivists going by the name "Genesis Day" claims it attacked Samsung's offices in South Korea because of the country's recent opening of a mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The group said it hacked the internal File Transfer Protocol service of the Samsung Group in South Korea as well as the internal employee system and the Samsung Group intranet.