Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: A US voting software supplier
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A new report reveals that Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to 122 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election.