Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: ESET
Affected country: Slovakia
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: ESET fends off a DDoS attack facilitated by "Updates for Android", a malicious news app hosted in the Google Play Store and downloaded 50,000 times.