Event description

City Housing & Utilities is focused on implementing the import substitution policy. The company has developed a new product, which it is boldly promoting: "Docker containers? Forget that. What your really need is Boxes."

The innovative automation solution caught the attention of investors and the government. At the "State F: Import Substitution Strategy 2025" conference held recently, City Housing & Utilities presented a demo of its portal for managing "boxes." A pilot project with one of its client companies, Tube, was used as an example. The demo was live-streamed.

The event exceeded all expectations, in a bad way. Malicious code got into one of the "boxes" right during the demo. After the assembly process completed, instead of the client’s demo app, a website template opened up, featuring an image of the Trojan Horse.

As a result, City Housing & Utilities hasn’t received any subsidies or funding, and its main client Tube has refused to continue cooperation. Despite the significant reputational damage, City Housing & Utilities isn’t giving up on the idea: the company believes that negative PR is also a PR. Meanwhile, Boxes v2.0 is already in internal testing. "There won’t be such issues with the new version," says the CEO.

Consequences

1. Financial damage
2. Product quality deterioration
3. Reputational damage

Event description

City Housing & Utilities company fell victim to a cyberattack. Unidentified intruders breached the internal service used for communication by administrators and tech support specialists, compromising its key component—the API, which is essential for connecting the company’s clients to its virtual servers. As a result, access to crucial resources was denied.

The issue persisted until the consequences of the attack were fully resolved, causing prolonged downtimes for clients.

Consequences

1. Enterprise disruptions and downtime
2. Loss of clients
3. System failures

Event description

At the beginning of the quarter, City Housing & Utilities switched to Lite File Manager, an enterprise web service for secure document storage, designed to simplify and speed up data sharing among specialists. But recently all business processes at City Housing & Utilities have come to a standstill: employees can’t access files needed for their work, while the homepage of the portal is displaying the logo of a notorious hacker group from State F.

The company believes that the web service is not as secure as it’s advertised, but the developer of Lite File Manager denies the blame. According to the developer, the defacement became possible due to poor performance of City Housing & Utilities' DevOps team. In the meantime, the company’s specialists are urgently looking for alternative ways to deliver documents. It’s difficult to say how long the situation will last.

Consequences

1. Reputational damage
2. System failures

Event description

In a recent cyberattack, a hacker group broke into the corporate portal of City Housing & Utilities company. Their target? The information intended for new employees, including loyalty programs and corporate bonuses.

One might wonder what hackers could be after on this portal—the corporate training schedule? The corporate dress code? Nope, you guessed it, they were after something much more valuable—around 100 promo codes for delicious hot pizza from the CyberPepperoni Express pizzeria chain.

After the incident, the loyalty program was suspended. The employees are very frustrated, and the security service is working on patching up the vulnerabilities in the system.

Consequences

1. Deception of employees
2. Public discontent