Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-08-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undisclosed cryptocurrency exchange
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of Operation AppleJeus, an attack against cryptocurrency exchanges carried out via a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application distributing the Fallchill malware.