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Belvidere City Hall
January 31, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
Belvidere City Hall is the victim of a cyber attack.
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Dundee and Angus College
January 31, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Dundee and Angus College is apparently hit with a ransomware attack.
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Everton Fan Services Twitter account
January 31, 2020
The Everton Fan Services Twitter account is allegedly hacked.
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Fondren Orthopedic Group
January 31, 2020
Fondren Orthopedic Group notifies patients after a malware incident occurred on November 21, 2019, destroyed patient records.
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US Department of Defense (DOD)
January 31, 2020
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[ financial, malware, government ]
A security researcher discovers a cryptocurrency-mining botnet inside a web server operated by the US Department of Defense (DOD).
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kauno.diena.lt
January 30, 2020
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[ espionage, phishing, technology ]
Ghostwriter, a suspected Belarus-backed hacking group, has compromised websites and email accounts in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland'to publish fabricated documents pushing anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives consistent with Kremlin talking points. The influence campaign started in 2017.
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Erfan Kasraie
January 30, 2020
The Iranian state-backed threat actor Charming Kitten impersonated prominent journalists and sent targets fake interview requests in order to steal their credentials and send them malware. Among the victims is Erfan Kasraie, an Iranian academic who received a fake message from Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian-American journalist.
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Relative of Azadeh Shafiee
January 30, 2020
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[ espionage, social, phishing ]
The Iranian state-backed threat actor Charming Kitten impersonated prominent journalists and sent targets fake interview requests in order to steal their credentials and send them malware. One of the fake messages was from Azadeh Shafiee, an anchor for London-based broadcaster Iran International, that attempted to target one of her relatives.
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Grundy County Courthouse
January 30, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
The Grundy County Courthouse experiences a "cybersecurity breach".
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Mountain View Los Altos High School (MVLA)
January 30, 2020
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[ hack, education ]
Mountain View Los Altos High School is hit with a cyber attack.
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Rijksmuseum Twenthe
January 30, 2020
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[ hack, financial, social ]
Hackers posing as a veteran London art dealer trick Rijksmuseum Twenthe, a Dutch museum, buying a John Constable painting into paying 2.4 million pounds ($3.1 million) to a fraudulent bank account.
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Undisclosed Canadian insurance company
January 30, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
A Canadian insurance company paid nearly $1 million USD (about $1.3 million CAD) following a ransomware attack.
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Hassan Sarbakhshian
January 30, 2020
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Iranian state-backed threat actor Charming Kitten impersonated prominent journalists and sent targets fake interview requests in order to steal their credentials and send them malware. Among the victims is Hassan Sarbakhshian, an Iranian photojournalist who received a fake message from Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian-American journalist.
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NEC
January 30, 2020
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[ leak, malware, manufacturing ]
NEC confirms to have been hit with a cyberattack since 2018 that resulted in unauthorized access to its internal network and the exposure of 28,000 files.
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baltictimes.com
January 30, 2020
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[ website compromise, email compromise, influence campaign ]
Ghostwriter, a suspected Belarus-backed hacking group, has compromised websites and email accounts in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland'to publish fabricated documents pushing anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives consistent with Kremlin talking points. The influence campaign started in 2017.
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LiveRamp
January 29, 2020
Facebook reveals that back in October, hackers commandeered the personal account of a LiveRamp employee and used it to gain access to the company's Business Manager account -- allowing them to run ads using other people's money.
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Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA)
January 29, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor, is hit with the Ryuk ransomware.
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Laurentian Bank
January 28, 2020
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
Police investigate after thieves hack three banking machines in the greater Montreal area, making off with an estimated $55,000.
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Personal Touch Home Care of Greater Portsmouth.
January 28, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Personal Touch Home Care of Greater Portsmouth notifies a Maze ransomware attack occurred on December 1, 2019.
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Red Kite Community Housing
January 28, 2020
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[ financial, social, phishing ]
Red Kite Community Housing announces to have fallen victim to a cyber-scam in which criminals posed as genuine service providers to steal a staggering 932,000.
