Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Equation Group
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: An anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers publishes what it claims are sophisticated software tools belonging to an elite team of hackers tied to the US National Security Agency known as "The Equation Group".