Adhoc

Adhoc, also known as Adhoc, is a Cambodian rights group headquartered in Cambodia. The organization's specific core products, services, and operational scale are not detailed in the provided incident overview. The available information is confined to a single, significant cybersecurity event from July 10, 2018, wherein the group's website was hacked and defaced with a false maintenance message. This technical compromise was attributed to an actor using the alias 'Turksiberkarargh'. The incident occurred against a backdrop of reported cyber espionage activities by the threat group TEMP.Periscope, which a U.S. cybersecurity firm assessed was operating on behalf of China. That broader campaign targeted Cambodia’s electoral body, government ministries, opposition figures, and various non-governmental organizations in the period leading up to national elections.

The 2018 hack of Adhoc's website directly coincided with this wider espionage operation. Data theft from that campaign impacted both ruling and opposition political parties, with analysts suggesting the intelligence gathering was potentially aimed at influencing electoral outcomes, though Chinese authorities denied any involvement. The attack on Adhoc, as a civil society organization, heightened concerns among similar groups in Cambodia about being targeted in such state-aligned campaigns. Consequently, the organization's noted distinguishing attribute in the public record is its status as a victim of a politically motivated cyber attack linked to a broader regional threat landscape. No explicit information is provided regarding Adhoc's ownership structure, parent companies, or subsidiary relationships. The profile is therefore necessarily limited to this documented security incident and its immediate context within Cambodia's civil society and cyber threat environment.