Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-11-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Finance Ministry of Lebanon
Affected country: Lebanon
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An unknown actor with a connection to Iran hijacked DNS records to target the traffic of governments and telecommunications organizations around the world. One of the victims is the Finance Ministry of Lebanon.