Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-09-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: North Korea's Reconaissance General Bureau
Affected country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: US Cyber Command
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: United States of America
Description: U.S. government officials told the Washington Post that the United States had launched a denial of service campaign against North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country's intelligence agency.