Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-09-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: At least 17 Utilities in the US.
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Utilities
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Tianjin State Security Department (APT10)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Researchers from Proofpoint disclose a new attack targeting US Utilities. The operation is dubbed LookBack.