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City of Cornelia
October 2, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack on City of Cornelia's billing system results in a day of lost productivity.
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Universiti Malaya
October 17, 2019
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[ hack, education ]
The Universiti Malaya E-Pay Cashless Payment and Records portal is hacked but no data is compromised apparently.
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Web
October 16, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Web.com, the parent company of world's first domain registrar Network Solutions discloses a security breach occurred in August 2019. A third-party infiltrated some of the company's systems. Even Register.com is affected.
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Ingredion Incorporated
October 15, 2019
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[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Ingredion Incorporated reveals that it recently detected suspicious activity on some data center servers due to malware.
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Jack Monroe
October 14, 2019
Jack Monroe says she has lost about 5,000 after her phone number was hijacked and re-activated on another Sim card.
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India
October 14, 2019
According to Logically AI, Pakistan starts a misinformation campaign against India, dubbed #GobackModi, via Twitter.
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M6 Group (Groupe M6)
October 12, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
The M6 Group (Groupe M6), France's largest privately-owned multimedia group, is the victim of ransomware, but none of the company's TV and radio channels suffered any downtime.
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Monterey Health Center
October 11, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Monterey Health Center notifies a ransomware attack occurred on August 2019.
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Click2Mail
October 11, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Click2Mail sends out a notice to 200,000 customers to warn them of a hack discovered on October, 4th.
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Central Valley Regional Center
October 11, 2019
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Central Valley Regional Center in California notifies patients of a breach occurred when an employee's email account was accessed by an unauthorized third party between July 25 "August 2, 2019.
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Maati Monjib
October 10, 2019
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 second target is Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui, a human rights lawyer.
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Fairfield County High School
October 10, 2019
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Attackers target students at a Fairfield County High School in a phishing scheme.
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Hookers[.]nl
October 10, 2019
A Bulgarian hacker known as InstaKilla breaches EscortForumIt[.]xxx and Hookers[.]nl two online escort forums and stole the user information that he is now offering for sale on a hacking forum.
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TransUnion
October 9, 2019
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[ hack, finance ]
The personal information of about 37,000 Canadians is compromised after the fraudulent use of one if TransUnion's legitimate business customer's login credentials. The breach occurred between June and July.
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Blue Earth Area High School
October 9, 2019
Blue Earth Area High School replaces its gymnasium floor in the wake of a Sept. 19 cyberattack at the school that hit the computer that controls the humidity level in the building.
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Hibiscus Petroleum
October 7, 2019
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[ hack, energy ]
Hibiscus Petroleum reveals that its IT system was "subjected to an attack" the previous week.
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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.
