Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-10-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: A threat actor, believed to be Russian military intelligence, targeted the office of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague with a view of compromising its Wi-Fi network for espionage purposes.