Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-07-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Copyfish Chrome Web Store Account
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Phishers hack Copyfish, an extension for Google Chrome, after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abusing it to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users.