Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-09-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Unnamed Afghan mobile operator
Affected country: Afghanistan
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Bundeswehr's Computer Network Operations Unit (CNO)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Germany
Description: Der Spiegel reveals that the Bundeswehr's (German Armed Forces) special cyber unit is believed to have conducted the nation's first known "offensive" cyber operation in 2015, when it hacked into the network of an Afghan mobile network provider.