Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-04-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Pirate Bay
Affected country: Sweden
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.