Appendix – Major Cyber Incidents Throughout 2019

November 2019

  • Iranian hackers targeted the accounts of employees at major manufacturers and operators of industrial control systems. (Nation State Industrial Espionage Campaign)
  • An alleged non-state actor targeted the UK Labour party with a major DDoS attack that temporarily took the party's computer systems offline. (Nation State Disinformation and Election Interference)

October 2019

  • An Israeli cyber security firm was found to have sold spyware used to target senior government and military officials in at least 20 countries by exploiting a vulnerability in WhatsApp. (Nation State Espionage and Intelligence Collection)
  • A state-sponsored hacking campaign knocked offline more than 2,000 websites ...

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