Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-05-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Brazilian Ministry of External Relations
Affected country: Brazil
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The internal communications system of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations has been hit by hackers carried on with spear-phishing emails.