Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-03-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: U.S. Maritime Entities
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Hainan State Security Department (APT40)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Security firm FireEye reveals the details of TEMP.Periscope, a Chinese group focused on U.S. maritime entities that were either linked to -- or have clients operating in -- the South China Sea.