Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Islamic State forum on the dark web
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Intsights
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Israel
Description: Intsights, an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm, claims to have uncovered plans for future ISIS attacks after hacking into an ISIS forum the group had used in the past to plan other attacks.