Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-12-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: French President Emmanuel Macron
Affected country: France
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: GRU 85th Main Special Service Center (Unit 26165) (FANCYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Researchers from Google and FireEye reveal that threat actors from APT28 and Sandworm hacked the correspondence of French President Emmanuel Macron in May 2017.