Recent Breaches
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February 28, 2022 • In July 2024, a data breach attributed to Explore Talent was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. Containing 5.7M rows with 5.4M unique email addresses, the incident has been described by various sources as occurring between early 2022 to 2023 and also contains names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
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February 27, 2022 • A Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher published the biggest leak ever of files and data from Conti following Conti's publicly supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Conti is a syndicate of Russian and Eastern Europe cybercriminals wanted by the FBI for conducting attacks on hundreds of US organizations and causing millions of dollars in losses. The thousands of internal documents and communications leaked include evidence that appears to suggest Conti operatives have contacts within the Russian government, including the FSB intelligence service.
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February 27, 2022 • GhostSec (Anonymous) released a sample of databases stolen from additional government and municipality sites across Russia. They conducted attacks against "Russian hackers" and the "hacker group GhostWriter" (a.k.a. UNC1151).
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February 27, 2022 • Bridgestone tire factories across North America are hit by a sever cyberattack causing a complete interruption of operations for multiple days.
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February 27, 2022 • UK manufacturing group suffers LockBit ransomware attack.
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February 27, 2022 • Belarusian Cyber Partisans claim to have breached the railway systems to disrupt Russian efforts to move soldiers and equipmnt through the country.
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February 27, 2022 • AgainstTheWest (ATW) claims to have attacked a department of the Administration of the Pskov Region with their own custom "wiper" malware. All data has been reportedly saved and deleted.
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February 27, 2022 • Anonymous claimed to have exfiltrated and leaked a database of a Russian bank "in support of the Ukrainian people." The data was uploaded on February 27.
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February 26, 2022 • Anonymous hacks Belarusian weapons manufacturer and releases 200GB of stolen emails.
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February 26, 2022 Anonymous Liberland & the Pwn-B''r Hack Team have leaked to the journalism collective DDoSecrets over 200GB of emails from a Belarusian weapons manufacturer. The latter has operated since 2001 and offers missile and gun systems, air defense and surveillance radar systems, specialist training, as well as system repair and upgrades.
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February 26, 2022 • A number of Russia's largest domestic news websites were attacked and information replaced with a "tombstone" for the war dead. Many of the sites were then taken offline.
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February 26, 2022 • A Ukraine border control station is struck with a data wiper cyberattack severely slowing the process of allowing refugees to cross into Romania.
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February 25, 2022 • Anonymous breaches a Russian Ministry of Defense database including personal contact information and leaks it online.
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February 25, 2022 • Russian government entities and state-owned companies have been targeted over events in Ukraine, with the websites of the Kremlin, flagship carrier and major lender among those to have seen outages or temporary access issues.
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February 25, 2022 • The Wordfence team has identified a cyberattack on Ukrainian universities that coincided with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and resulted in at least 30 compromised Ukrainian university websites. The threat actor has stated publicly that they support Russia in the conflict.
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February 25, 2022 • New York government ethics watch dog is forced to shut dow all systems following an unidentified cyberattack.
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February 25, 2022 • Louisiana medical center is hit with Conti ransomware attack.
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February 25, 2022 • A Ukraine border control station has been struck with a data wiper cyberattack that has slowed the process of allowing refugees to cross into Romania.
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February 25, 2022 • UNC1151 has targeted Employees of a Kazakhstani education institution. Mass phishing emails have recently been observed; after the account is compromised, the threat actiors, by the IMAP protocol, get access to all the messages. Subsequently, the attacks leverage the contact information stored in the victim's address book to propagate the phishing messages to other targets.
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February 25, 2022 • Professional services and insurance firm AON suffers a cyberattack.