City of Gloversville (NY)
March 14, 2025
•[ ransomware, data leak ]
City of Gloversville, New York, experienced a ransomware attack discovered on March 14, 2025. The incident encrypted municipal servers and exposed payroll and banking information. Attackers demanded $300,000, and the city paid $150,000 to regain access; no ransomware group has publicly claimed responsibility.
Undisclosed Canadian oil & gas company
October 1, 2025
•[ hacktivism, operational technology ]
Hacktivists manipulated an automated tank gauge system at a Canadian oil & gas company, triggering erroneous alarms; no injuries or physical damage reported.
Canadian water facility
October 1, 2025
•[ hacktivism, critical infrastructure, industrial control system ]
Hacktivists tampered with water-pressure valves at a Canadian water facility, degrading water service to the local community; actions intended to draw attention to activist causes.
New Mexico Public Defender Department
September 30, 2025
•[ ransomware ]
Ransomware detected Sept 30 2025 shut down New Mexicos Public Defender Department, locking access to thousands of active case files and delaying court filings for about ten days. No data theft or leak has been reported.
Undisclosed Belgian Diplomatic Entities
September 1, 2025
•[ cyber-espionage, phishing, malware ]
China-linked UNC6384 conducted a cyber-espionage campaign beginning Sept 2025 against Belgian diplomatic entities using EU/NATO-themed phishing emails with malicious .LNK attachments exploiting ZDI-CAN-25373 to deploy PlugX via DLL side-loading. Arctic Wolf Labs attributed the activity to UNC6384.
Merkle, Inc. (Dentsu Group)
October 1, 2025
•[ data leak, ransomware ]
Dentsus US-based subsidiary Merkle disclosed a cyber incident discovered in October 2025 involving unauthorized access and data theft from HR and client systems; stolen information included employee, supplier, and client financial and personal records; certain systems were taken offline during response; no ransomware group claimed responsibility.
Undisclosed European telecommunications company
July 15, 2025
•[ espionage, vulnerability exploitation, malware ]
China-nexus operators breached a telecom by exploiting an edge service (e.g., NetScaler/SharePoint), then established persistence with SnappyBee-family tooling, harvested credentials and moved laterally to support systems for intelligence collection. No service interruption reported; primary effect is covert access and data staging.
Undisclosed Indian government or infrastructure organisation(s)
September 1, 2025
•[ espionage, malware, credential theft ]
Pakistan-linked APT36 used themed lures and HTML/shortcut droppers to deliver cross-platform implants on Windows and BOSS Linux systems used by Indian government organizations, enabling credential theft, persistence and covert collection. Activity is espionage-oriented with no reported service outage.
At least one LastPass user
October 24, 2025
•[ phishing, credential theft, account takeover ]
Phishing emails impersonated password-vault Emergency Access notices using false death claims to coerce replies (e.g., STOP), pivoting victims to a look-alike portal tied to CryptoChameleon infrastructure; harvested credentials enabled vault takeover attempts and secondary account compromise. Campaign reflects profit-seeking credential theft across many individuals rather than a single named organization.
Jennings O'Donovan
October 1, 2025
•[ data leak ]
Engineering firm Jennings O'Donovan in County Sligo, Ireland experienced unauthorized access to part of its IT system used for the governments defective block grant scheme. The intrusion occurred in early October 2025 and potentially exposed personal data of roughly 861 applicants, while financial systems remained secure. Authorities consider it consistent with financially motivated criminal activity.
Colorado State Public Defender’s Office
October 3, 2025
•[ ransomware ]
Ransomware beginning Oct 3 2025 encrypted servers and shared drives at Colorados State Public Defender Office, rendering thousands of case files inaccessible and delaying operations for weeks. No evidence of data theft or leak has been reported.
University of Pennsylvania
October 31, 2025
•[ data leak ]
Hacker alias WeGotHacked infiltrated University of Pennsylvania systems around Oct 31 2025, stealing an estimated 1.2 million donor records and compromising multiple @upenn.edu email accounts. On Nov 1 the actor used those accounts to send vulgar emails to the campus community. BleepingComputer later verified portions of the dataset. UPenn initially denied a breach but launched an investigation after the claims were substantiated.
Origin Energy
July 30, 2025
•[ insider threat, data leak ]
Encrypted credit/debit card details for 732 customers (plus associated account data) exfiltrated to a personal email account on the employees last day; company disclosed the insider-led breach and began notifications.
ZZ Dats
October 24, 2025
•[ data leak, government, regulatory action ]
Latvias DVI fined vendor ZZ Dats 300,000 for a 2024 municipal data breach affecting 42 municipalities; enforcement materials cite failures in safeguarding personal data rather than evidence of a targeted intrusion. This row logs the regulatory outcome tied to last years exposure.
ModMed (Modernizing Medicine)
October 24, 2025
•[ data leak, healthcare, third-party breach ]
Modernizing Medicine (ModMed) said it discovered unauthorized activity on July 29, 2025, and confirmed that attackers had accessed and exfiltrated data from servers hosting podiatry-client EHR information between July 910. Exposed fields include full names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, contact details, health insurance info, medical record and patient account numbers, dates of service, providers/practices, billing/diagnostic codes, prescription/medication data, and diagnosis/treatment information; providers were notified on September 19 and patients on October 17. Days later, a seller advertised a partial EHR database (1,0001,500 podiatry patient records) on a breach forum/Telegram, indicating financially motivated data trafficking, though ModMed has not confirmed a second intrusion. Overall impact: large-scale PHI exposure from vendor-hosted servers, with evidence of downstream data sale attempts.
At least one undisclosed Ukraine war-relief organization
October 22, 2025
•[ phishing, credential theft, malware ]
Targeted credential-theft/implant delivery against humanitarian and logistics organizations aiding Ukraine using well-crafted lures, HTML smuggling, and compartmentalized infrastructure. Intent is intelligence collection; campaign report covers multiple organizations without a single verified primary effect to code as an event.
OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
January 8, 2025
•[ data leak ]
Documents show unusual activity between Jan 811 in a shared network environment used by the property; subsequent review determined thousands of individuals were affected. The case centers on data theft rather than operational shutdown, with regulatory filings and notices issued in October.
Wojeski & Company
July 28, 2023
•[ ransomware, phishing, data leak ]
NY AG says Wojeski suffered a phishing-led ransomware incident that locked access to files, followed by a second breach when a vendors employee improperly accessed and exfiltrated client data. Notifications lagged by over a year. Settlement requires encryption, inventorying locations of personal data, stronger access controls, vulnerability management, and a formal IR plan; $60,000 penalty and credit monitoring for affected New Yorkers.
City of La Vergne
October 17, 2025
•[ government ]
La Vergne shut systems after a cybersecurity breach on Oct 17; city offices remained closed while FBI/TBI assisted recovery.
University of the Witwatersrand
October 17, 2025
•[ zero-day, data leak ]
University statement confirms zero-day event impacting Oracle E-Business; investigation ongoing
