Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-01-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: Frontier Communications
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Lebanese Cedar
Actor type: Terrorist
Actor country: Lebanon
Description: Lebanese Cedar, a Hezbollah-affiliated threat actor, has been linked to a hacking campaign that affected telecoms and ISPs in the US, the UK, and the Middle East. One of the victims is Frontier Communications.