Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Israeli Defense Ministry
Affected country: Israel
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Earlier in January, unknown hackers break into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software looking like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.