Mississippi Valley State University
March 10, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Mississippi Valley State University's campus was temporary without internet service this week after university officials said the school was hit by a SamSam ransomware attack.
UK government contractor
March 9, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at NCC Group reveal to have discovered multiple backdoors on a UK government contractor's computer systems designed to steal sensitive government and military data. The hack is tied to China-linked cyber espionage group APT15.
ABC Bus Companies, Inc.
March 2, 2018
•[ social, phishing ]
An employee falls victim of a phising email and delivers to the attacker the personal information of ABC employees.
Primary Health Care
March 1, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Primary Health Care notifies patients after discovering hack of employee email accounts.
FS-ISAC
March 1, 2018
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, reveals that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing attacks against FS-ISAC members.
Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
March 1, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
For the second time in two weeks, the computers at the Colorado Department of Transportation Agency shut down 2,000 computers after a ransomware infection.
FastHealth
February 27, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
FastHealth reveals that in mid-August 2017, an unauthorized party gained access to their web server and obtained patient data.
Wallace Community College Selma
February 24, 2018
•[ leak, phishing, education ]
Personal and financial information of current and former employees of Wallace Community College Selma is leaked through a phishing scam.
Teesside University
February 24, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Students at Teesside University are warned about a possible email security breach and urged to reset their university password.
University of Alaska
February 22, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of current and former employees and students of the University of Alaska are unable to access their Alaska.edu accounts. According to the investigation, user passwords have been changed by a third party.
Matteo Salvini Blog
February 22, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
The Italian elections are approaching, so Hacktivists from the collective LulzSecITA hack the blog of Matteo Salvini, the leader of right-wind Italian party "La Lega" and dump 70,000 emails.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
February 20, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
CDOT is hit with a ransomware attack, attributed to SamSam, which forces the organization to shut down 2,000 computers.
Los Angeles Times
February 20, 2018
Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, finds cryptojacking code hidden (based on Coinhive) on the Los Angeles Times' interactive Homicide Report webpage.
HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
Svitzer
March 15, 2018
•[ insider, misconfiguration ]
The shipping company Svitzer suffers a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees when three employees have had emails auto-forwarded in the past 11 months.
Fortnite
March 14, 2018
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
Port of Longview
March 13, 2018
•[ hack ]
The Port of Longview is hit by a cyber attack that may have affected hundreds of past and current employees and dozens of vendors.
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Senate campaign
March 8, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Senate campaign tells the FBI in a letter that it fears it was hacked.
Dutch women's handball team
March 8, 2018
•[ hack ]
According to local reports in the Netherlands, hackers manage to breach the surveillance camera system in a dressing room of a sauna hosting the women handball team, and post the recordings on adult websites last December.