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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Medical)
October 4, 2019
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[ phishing, healthcare ]
UAB Medical is hit by a phishing attack occurred on August 7th, 2019, which targeted the payroll department. The attackers gained access to numerous employee emails containing the health information for 19,557 patients.
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Shady al-Ghazaly Harba
October 3, 2019
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Dr. Shady al-Ghazaly Harba, a surgeon and opposition activist who has been detained since 2018.
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An official with the Egyptian-Canadian Coalition for Democracy
October 3, 2019
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is an official with the Egyptian-Canadian Coalition for Democracy who was targeted after his organization published a video of an Egyptian government minister making threatening gestures during a speech.
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Afaf Mahfouz
October 3, 2019
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Afaf Mahfouz, an 81-year old psychoanalyst and civil society activist.
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Voatz
October 1, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
The FBI is investigating after someone allegedly tried to hack into Voatz, West Virginia's mobile voting app during the 2018 midterm elections.
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Eurobet
October 14, 2019
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Eurobet, the online gambling portal, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Sunapee New Hampshire School District
October 13, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Sunapee New Hampshire School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Mission Health
October 11, 2019
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Mission Health reveals that to have discovered, on September 13, that malicious code has been implanted into its online store websites.
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Hunt Memorial Hospital District
October 11, 2019
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[ hack, healthcare ]
The Hunt Memorial Hospital District releases an update regarding a cyber attack occurred in May 2018.
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Boston University
October 10, 2019
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[ leak, education ]
Over 1,000 Boston University students are forced to change their account passwords after the servers are flooded with spam emails from student accounts. The spam is believed to be a result of a 2018 breach of the educational site Chegg.
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Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui
October 10, 2019
Amnesty International released a report showing how Morocco's government used the NSO Group's Pegasus malware to target two human rights activists in Morocco. The first target is Maati Monjib, an academic and activist.
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Immutable
October 9, 2019
Immutable is hit by a cyber attack after it offered to support a professional gamer banned from his sport for endorsing Hong Kong democracy protests.
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Beeline
October 7, 2019
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[ leak, technology ]
The data of 8.7 million customers from Russian internet service provider Beeline is being sold and shared online. The breach occurred in 2017.
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Italian Democratic Party
October 6, 2019
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[ hack, leak, government ]
Anonymous Italia hacks 8 websites of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) and leaks 220 databases containing personal data in clear text.
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T? Ora Compass Health
October 5, 2019
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[ hack, healthcare ]
In the wake of a cyber attack occurred in August, T? Ora Compass Health discovers to have been affected by a cyber attack from 2016 to March 2019, resulting in the potential exposure of sensitive medical information belonging to one million individuals.
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Ragia Omran
October 3, 2019
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Ragia Omran, a lawyer and human rights activist.
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Hassan Nafaa
October 3, 2019
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[ espionage, malware, education ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Hassan Nafaa, a political scientist at Cairo University.
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Schlotzsky's
October 2, 2019
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
McAlister's Deli, Moe's Southwest Grill, and Schlotzsky's (all of them owned by Focus Brands) disclose publicly that their networks were infected with point-of-sale malware.
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US petroleum industry
October 1, 2019
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[ espionage, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Netskope discover a campaign against the US petroleum industry carried out via a new Adwind Remote Access Trojan (RAT) variant.
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Japanese government agencies
October 2, 2019
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[ espionage, government, malware ]
Researchers at JPCERT reveal the details of a campaign targeting Japanese government agencies and exploiting a vulnerability in the local Sanshiro spreadsheet application (CVE-2014-0810).
