Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-06-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Servers
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau (Kimsuky)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: South Korea's government-sponsored insitute for nuclear power research is hacked by North Korean actors exploiting a VPN vulnerability.