Cybersecurity incident — 2018-11-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ukrainian government agencies
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: FSB 18th Center for Information Security (Berserk Bear)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine detect a new strain of the Pterodo Windows backdoor targeting computers at Ukrainian government agencies.