Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ask
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts,Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An unknown attacker hijacks the update mechanism employed by Ask Partner Network (APN) to download suspicious code onto unsuspecting users' PCs.