Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: Singtel
Affected country: Singapore
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: FIN11
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Singtel and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute disclosed data breaches caused by a vulnerability in the Accellion FTA secure file transfer software. "A third-party file sharing system provided by Accellion called FTA has been illegally accessed through a zero-day vulnerability or previously unknown vulnerability. Singtel uses this system to share information internally as well as with external stakeholders and organisations," Singtel announced in a security incident notification.