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APT17 (AKA Deputy Dog and Axiom)
July 24, 2019
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[ espionage, hack, government ]
Intrusion Truth, an online group of anonymous cyber-security analysts, reveals the details of APT17 (AKA Deputy Dog and Axiom) another cyber-espionage hacking group linked to the Chinese government.
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Grays Harbor Community Hospital
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Grays Harbor Community Hospital is hit by a ransomware attack (and plays mum).
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Valve
July 24, 2019
A threat actor, believed to be the Chinese APT Winnti, used a Trojan horse to gain a remote backdoor access to German energy technology company Siemens, chemical firm BASF, and consumer goods company Henkel. Non-German companies Roche, Lion Air, and Marriott, among others, were also targeted.
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New Haven Public School District
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The New Haven Public School district is hit by a recent ransomware attack.
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Undisclosed streaming service
July 24, 2019
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Researchers from Imperva reveal that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that lasted for 13 days, launched from 402,000 different IPs, with a peak flow of 292,000 requests per second.
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Ouachita Parish School District
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Ouachita Parish School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Morehouse Parish School District
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Morehouse Parish School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Marriott
July 24, 2019
A threat actor, believed to be the Chinese APT Winnti, used aTrojan horse to gain aremote backdoor access to German energy technology company Siemens, chemical firm BASF, and consumer goods company Henkel. Non-German companies Roche, Lion Air, and Marriott, among others, were also targeted.
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Sabine Parish School District
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Sabine Parish School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Springhill Medical Center
July 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Springhill Medical Center is the victim of a ransomware attack.
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Christo Grozev
July 23, 2019
A threat actor conducted a phishing attack on Bellingcat who have been probing Russian intelligence activities. The phishing email was sent to Christo Grozev, a Bellingcat contributor. APT28 is suspected to be the threat actor.
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Tennessee Higher Education Commission
July 23, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission investigates a possible data breach of a 3rd party vendor, that potentially has exposed personal information of thousands of students.
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University of Hawaii
July 23, 2019
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[ education, hack, misconfiguration ]
Personal information for as many as 70,000 public school students may have been compromised after Graduation Alliance, a University of Hawaii vendor, detected "suspicious" unauthorized access to one of its servers.
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Dr. Carl Bilancione Dentist
July 23, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Dr. Carl Bilancione Dentist s the latest victim of a ransomware attack.
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Milton Keynes Council
July 22, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
The planning portal of Milton Keynes Council is crippled by a cyber attack.
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Butler County Federated Library System
July 21, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Butler County Federated Library System is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Cracked.to
July 21, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database. A rival hacking website claimed responsibility for breaching the MyBB based forum which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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Jessica Alba's Twitter Account
July 20, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Jessica Alba's Twitter Account is hacked and starts to post racial tweets.
