Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-08-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Gamma Group
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: PhineasFisher
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Description: Gamma International UK Ltd, the company that makes and sells the world's most elusive cyber weapon, FinFisher spyware, is hacked by a group called Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR), and has a 40G file dumped on the internet.