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US Senate
January 12, 2018
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[ espionage, government ]
Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that the state sponsored hackers behind APT28 (AKA Pawn Storm AKA Fancy Bear) targeted the US Senate in mid-2017).
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Hancock Regional Hospital
January 12, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Hancock Regional Hospital, in the state of Indiana, confirms to be running on pen and paper following a SAMSAM ransomware attack, which hit the day prior. The hospital eventually pays up hackers $55,000 to restore control.
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Onco360
January 8, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Onco360 notifies a phishing incident involving an employee's email account and affecting potentially 53,000 users.
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Caremed Specialty Pharmacy
January 8, 2018
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[ healthcare ]
Caremed Specially Pharmacy is victim of the same event affecting Onco360.
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Reddit
January 5, 2018
Reddit confirms that one of its email providers, Mailgun, has been breached, resulting in the hacks of user profiles and their linked cryptocurrency accounts.
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Columbia Falls School District Number 6
January 5, 2018
The Columbia Falls School District Number 6 in Montana, sends out letters to notify the breach occurred after the attack carried on by The Dark Overlord begun on September 1st, 2017.
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Beautyblender
January 5, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Beautyblender notifies 3,673 individuals that their information might have been compromised after the discovery of a malware on its online shop.
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Goldjoy
January 4, 2018
Goldjoy, another travel agency in Hong Kong, reveals that unauthorised parties accessed its customer database containing personal information such as names and ID card numbers, passport details and phone numbers, asking for a ransom.
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thefly
January 2, 2018
A hacker using the twitter handle @0x55Taylor posts some screenshots of a breach affecting all users who registered at thefly.com a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news between 2006 and 2015. The leak contains the data of 100,000 individuals.
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Rockingham County Schools
January 1, 2018
Rockingham County Schools servers are compromised by the Emotet malware after an employee opens a phishing email.
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EtherDelta
December 20, 2017
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[ financial, hack, finance ]
Popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta is hacked, with many users unknowingly sending their tokens to the hacker instead of the exchange. At least 308 ETH ($266,789) were stolen, as well as a large number of tokens potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Bitfinex
December 17, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitfinex is, once again hit by a massive DDoS attack.
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Stanislaus County's Mental Health Department
December 15, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
500 computers from Stanislaus County's Mental Health Department are quarantined after ransomware is detected in the network.
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Allscripts
January 18, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
A ransomware attack takes down some of the applications used by Allscripts.
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Greta Van Susteren (@greta) Twitter account
January 16, 2018
Former Fox News hosts Eric Bolling and Greta Van Susteren appear to have their Twitter accounts hijacked by a group of suspected Turkish hackers dubbed Ayy?ld?z Tim.
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International Luge Federation
January 12, 2018
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[ espionage ]
A threat actor targeted international sports organizations in Western Europe in the run-up to the International Olympic Committee's banning Russian athletes from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
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United States Olympic Committee
January 10, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
APT28 AKA Pawn Storm AKA Fancy Bear publish a set of apparently stolen emails purportedly belong to officials from the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and third-party groups associated with the organizations.
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Veyna & Forschino
December 23, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Veyna & Forschino disclose a breach involving an unauthorized access to a company email. Compromised information includes individuals' name, date of birth, telephone numbers, address, Social Security number, W-2 information, 1099 records (including account number if provided), and direct deposit bank account information.
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Globex
December 21, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
Hackers try to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system. At the end the hackers only withdraw around $100,000.
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Medhost
December 19, 2017
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The website of medhost.com is redirected to a page where the attackers post a message claiming to have stolen personal information from the servers. However they do not provide any evidence of the data.
