Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ben Hubbard
Affected country: Lebanon
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: KINGDOM
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Saudi Arabia
Description: The Saudi hackers KINGDOM launched a phishing attack to attempt to trick journalist Ben Hubbard into installing NSO Group's Pegasus malware onto his phone. Hubbard does not recall clicking on the infected link sent to him via text message and it is unknown if his phone was infected.