Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-10-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: Imedi TV
Affected country: Georgia
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: GRU Main Special Center for Special Technologies (Unit 74455) (SANDWORM)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Russian group Sandworm carried out large-scale cyberattacks against targets in Georgia. The hackers disrupted Proservice a webhosting site, which led to the defacement of as many as 15,000 websites. Additionally, two TV broadcasters, Imedi TV and Maestro, were taken offline as well.