Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Russian Digital Development Ministry, Energy Ministry, the Federal State Statistics Service, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Bailiff Service, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Culture Ministry, etc.
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Russian federal agencies' websites compromised in a supply chain attack. Attackers compromised the stats widget used to track the number of visitors. The attackers published their own content and blocked access to the websites.