Incidents in country:

Lebanon

2 incidents catalogued

EspionageResolvedJanuary 18, 2018

Dark Caracal global mobile espionage campaign

A multi-year cyber-espionage campaign tied to the Lebanese General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) stole hundreds of gigabytes of data from thousands of victims across 21+ countries using trojanized Android apps and desktop malware.

Victim: Activists, journalists, lawyers, military and government targets (21+ countries)

EspionageResolvedAugust 9, 2012

Gauss banking-espionage malware against Lebanese banks

Gauss, a nation-state cyber-surveillance toolkit related to Flame and Stuxnet, infected over 2,500 systems — most heavily in Lebanon — and was the first publicly known state-sponsored malware engineered to steal online-banking credentials from specific Lebanese banks.

Victim: Lebanese banks (Bank of Beirut, Byblos Bank, Fransabank, BlomBank, Credit Libanais) and their customers