Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cambodia
Affected country: Cambodia
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Hainan State Security Department (APT40)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Researchers from FireEye reveal a large scale operation from TEMP.Periscope, a Chinese cyber espionage group seeking to monitor the country's upcoming and contentious July 29 national elections.