Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Bellingcat
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: GRU 85th Main Special Service Center (Unit 26165) (FANCYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: ThreatConnect reveals that investigative journalism group Bellingcat, that helped to investigate the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 have been targeted in a series of sophisticated attacks by pro-Russia group Fancy Bear.