Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-04-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: NSA
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Shadow Brokers
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The Shadow Brokers dump a new collection of files, containing what appears to be exploits and hacking tools targeting Microsoft's Windows OS and evidence the Equation Group had gained access to servers and targeted the SWIFT banking system of several banks.