Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-02-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: UK think tanks
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) (APT19)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Crowdstrike reveals that some UK think tanks specializing in international security were hacked by China-based group 'Deep Panda' beginning in April 2017.