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Syscoin
June 13, 2018
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Malicious actors replace the legitimate Windows installer for Syscoin's cryptocurrency with a version containing malware, which was available on the company's Github page for several days.
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Mongolian government data center
June 13, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor has compromised a government data center in Mongolia. Kaspersky Lab assesses that the threat actor used its access to compromise websites that they will use in subsequent watering-hole attacks.
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Dixons Carphone
June 13, 2018
Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. The breach began in July last year and 105,000 cards without chip-and-pin protection have been leaked.
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Mexican National Action Party (PAN)
June 12, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The website of the Mexican National Action Party is hit by a cyber attack during the final television debate between presidential candidates ahead of the July 1 vote, after the site had published documents critical of the leading candidate.
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Clarifai
June 12, 2018
A lawsuit filed by a former employee alleges that AI startup Clarifai's computer systems were compromised by one or more people in Russia, potentially exposing technology used by the US military. The lawsuit says Clarifai learned of the breach last November, but that Clarifai's CEO and other executives did not promptly report it to the Pentagon.
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South Korean Think Tank
June 11, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group planted an ActiveX zero-day exploit on the website of a South Korean think tank focused on national security.
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City of Wellington
June 7, 2018
Wellington officials reveal to have been recently notified by Superion, their software vendor, about potential unauthorized charges on credit cards used by customers to pay their utility bills.
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PageUp
June 6, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Australia-based human resources firm PageUp confirms it found "unusual" activity on its IT infrastructure on May 23, which has resulted in the potential compromise of client data.
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Morinaga Milk Industry Co.
June 4, 2018
Morinaga Milk Industry Co. says that personal data on up to 92,822 customers may have been stolen as its health food shopping website was hacked. Credit card information belonging to up to 29,773 of the affected customers was leaked and that around 300 cases of illicit use of this information involving some 20 million, have been confirmed so far.
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Several Australian citizens
June 2, 2018
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[ social, malware ]
Several Australian citizens are the victims of a tech support scam, through which the attackers are able to take over their webcams and upload videos to YouTube.
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The Rhode Island Department of Human Services
June 1, 2018
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Rhode Island officials say several state agencies are targeted by malware. The list of victims include: the Department of Children, Youth and Families, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Behavioral Healthcare.
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Buffalo Wild Wings
June 1, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, retail ]
A hacker manages to take control of the official Twitter account of Buffalo Wild Wings (@BWWings) and posts a number of crude and racist tweets, including one that claims to give out the "secret recipe" for the company's wings.
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Harare Institute of Technology
May 28, 2018
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[ leak, education ]
A database from the Harare Institute of Technology is leaked, containing 3,500 users.
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Aultman Health Foundation
May 25, 2018
About 42,600 patients tied to AultWorks Occupational Medicine, Aultman Hospital, and some Aultman physician offices may have had personal health and identification information stolen in a data breach after unknown and unauthorized individuals gained access to certain email accounts in February and March.
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Allied Physicians
May 20, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Allied Physicians reports it was hit with a SamSam ransomware attack earlier this month (May 17).
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Bloomfield Hills High School
May 19, 2018
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[ hack, insider, education ]
Two students from Bloomfield Hills High School are the main suspects of a recent hack discovered at the school. The two broke into the school's MISTAR Student Information System portal where they changed grades, attendance records, and attempted to refund lunch purchases.
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No. 2 Banorte
May 12, 2018
Thieves siphon 300 million pesos ($15.4 million) out of five Mexican banks, including No. 2 Banorte, by creating phantom orders that wired funds to bogus accounts and promptly withdrew the money.
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Nuance
May 10, 2018
Speech recognition software firm Nuance announces the breach of thousands of patient records after a former employee breached its servers and accessed the personal information of 45,000 individuals from several contracted clients between November 20 and December 9 of 2017.
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Malley's Chocolates
May 10, 2018
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[ financial, hack, retail ]
Malley's Chocolates reveals that its website has been hacked, and the card information of 3,400 online customers has been breached.
