Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-12-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: BMW
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: APT32
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Viet Nam
Description: German media report that hackers from APT32 AKA Ocean Lotus, suspected to have ties to the Vietnamese government, have breached the networks of two car manufacturers, namely BMW and Hyundai.