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NSA
April 12, 2017
The Shadow Brokers dump a new collection of files, containing what appears to be exploits and hacking tools targeting Microsoft's Windows OS and evidence the Equation Group had gained access to servers and targeted the SWIFT banking system of several banks.
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Melbourne IT
April 12, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Australian ISP Melbourne IT confirms that it was hit by "a large DDoS attack" that disrupted its web hosting.
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Gamestop
April 7, 2017
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Video game giant GameStop Corp says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website gamestop.com.
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Unnamed Kazakh bank
April 4, 2017
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[ financial, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals the details of ATMitch, a fileless malware used to steal cash from ATMs. The researchers have only tracked down two incidents where ATMitch was used. The second is in a Kazakh bank.
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ABCD Pediatrics
April 4, 2017
While investigating ransomware incident, ABCD Pediatrics uncovers evidence of other intrusion: more than 55,000 patients are notified.
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German Bundeswehr (armed forces)
April 2, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The head of the German military's new cyber command, Lieutenant General Ludwig Leinhos, reveals that army computers were targeted hundreds of thousands of times in the first nine weeks of 2017.
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New York Post
April 1, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
The New York Post issues an apology after its app is hacked in an April Fool's Day prank and sends out a flurry of bizarre news alerts including one that read, "Heil President Donald Trump".
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Bill Marczak
March 29, 2017
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[ espionage, malware, technology ]
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
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Mountain Home Water Department
March 14, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The servers of Mountain Home Water Department fall victim to a ransomware attack.
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Welsh NHS
March 13, 2017
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Details of thousands of medical staff of Welsh NHS are stolen from a private contractor's computer server (Landauer). The breach happened in October 2016 and the total number of affected staff is 4,766.
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GMO Payment Gateway Inc
March 9, 2017
GMO Payment Gateway confirms data leakage from two client websites, due to the Apache Struts vulnerability. The victims are the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Japan Housing Finance Agency. The total leaked records are more than 700,000.
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Verifone
March 7, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone investigates a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions.
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Henok Gabisa
March 6, 2017
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
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Aptos
March 1, 2017
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[ financial, malware, technology ]
Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses stolen by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos late last year.
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Amalgamated Sugar
February 27, 2017
Nearly 3,000 workers at Amalgamated Sugar receive notifications of an intruder accessing the company's network and their personal information being disclosed.
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U.S. Residents in 20 states
February 26, 2017
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[ financial, malware ]
According to federal court documents, Russian hackers operating in Colorado and 15 other states used data-mining viruses to steal thousands of credit card numbers from U.S. residents in 20 states and sold them on the darknet for more than $3.6 million.
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Porsche Japan
February 26, 2017
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Japanese arm of Porsche says more than 28,000 email addresses have been leaked via a hack.
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Ohio state government websites
February 25, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #opUSA, hacktivists from the Anonymous collective take down some Ohio State websites.
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Unknown Organization
February 20, 2017
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[ hack, retail ]
A hacker claims to have hacked the official web forum of a gun retailer Airsoft GI (airsoftgiforum.com) and uploaded its data on Dropbox.
