Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-10-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: German Unit of the Federal Chancellery
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: National Security Agency
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: United States of America
Description: Der Spiegel reports that Regin, the highly sophisticated state sponsored malware, has been discovered infecting the laptop computer of a head of the German Unit of the Federal Chancellery.