Cybersecurity incident — 2020-11-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Shirbit
Affected country: Israel
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: BlackShadow
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

A cybercrime group calling themselves 'BlackShadow' tweets that they hacked into the Israeli Shirbit insurance company and stole files during the attack. The threat actors extort the company by demanding almost $1 million in bitcoin to stop leaking the company's stolen data.