Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-09-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: 2 Hong Kong government agencies
Affected country: China
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Guangdong State Security Department (GSSD) (APT3)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Security company FireEye reveals that two Hong Kong government agencies have come under attack from cyberspies originating in China in the month leading up to Sunday's legislative elections.