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Facebook Account of Ruqia Hassan
January 5, 2016
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[ espionage, social, technology ]
The Independent reveals that after murdering the activist Ruqia Hassan Mohammed in September, the ISIS jihadists hijacked and continued to operate her social media accounts until very recently to lure other opponents into a trap.
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allwomenstalk
January 5, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Root AKA @ciadotgov hacks allwomenstalk.com and dumps 136,938 usernames and passwords.
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Unknown Organization
January 4, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continue in the cyberspace: a group of unknown hackers carries out a DDoS attack on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense moda.gov.sa.
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Ministry of Information of Iran
January 2, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Iranian government websites including Ministry of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy and the official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (president.ir).
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Russian Federation Ministry of Customs
January 2, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Russian government websites including the Ministry of the Russian Far East Development, Russian Federation Ministry of Construction, The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, Russian Federation Ministry of Customs.
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US Customs and Border Protection
December 31, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency report on incidents where drug traffickers have hacked unmanned air vehicles (UAVs, drones) in order to illegally and secretly cross the US-Mexican border.
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Prykarpattiaoblenergo
December 23, 2015
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
The Ukrainian government blames power outages in western Ukraine on hacker attacks by Russian special services. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), malware has been found in the networks of some utilities. Moreover, these malware intrusions coincided with a non-stop telephone flood at utility plants and technical support departments, according to local reports.
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Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations
December 19, 2015
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[ leak, government ]
Armenian hackers from the Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hack the official websites of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and leak a trove of sensitive documents belonging to local citizens.
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NIC
December 17, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
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Juniper Networks
December 17, 2015
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Juniper Networks issues an urgent security advisory about "unauthorized code" found within the operating system used by some of the company's firewalls and Secure Service Gateway appliances.
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Swiss Cleaners
December 15, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The dry cleaning firm Swiss Cleaners suffered a point of sale data breach that could have potentially stolen the data from every payment card type used in the eight-store chain for almost one year.
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http://www
December 14, 2015
ProjectDump hacks bluebooktrader.com and dumps 6,187 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Swedish House Mafia Facebook Page
December 10, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Facebook page of the Electronic Dance Music Group Swedish House Mafia is hacked and the attacker posts some offending images of Miley Cyrus.
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Pakistani Journalist Hamid Mir
December 8, 2015
The official Twitter account of Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir is hacked by an unknown hacker, apparently pro-ISI, who leaks screenshots of his personal emails to the 1.7M followers.
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Nexus Mods
December 8, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
Nexus Mods announces a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but the database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
November 30, 2015
Anonymous breach the website of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to protest against the police attack on the Cop21 March and leak personal information of 1415 officials.
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VTech
November 28, 2015
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[ hack ]
A massive breach compromises 4.8 million of records from VTech, a Hong Kong toy company.
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Unknown Organization
November 25, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team take down the official website of Russian Central Bank (cbr.ru) amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border.
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http://www
November 23, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
RyanDa1338 hacks hortinews.co.ke and dumps 42,065 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Japan Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry
November 21, 2015
The website of Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is taken down by a DDoS attack. The Anonymous collective claims responsibility.