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University College London
June 15, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
University College London is hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brings down its shared drives and student management system. The attack also leads to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.
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ATMs in India
June 14, 2017
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
ATMs in India are under attack via Rufus, a Chinese malware targeting cash machines running outdated Windows XP.
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CashCrate
June 14, 2017
Motherboard reveals that hackers made off with 6 million user accounts for CashCrate, a site where users can be paid to complete online surveys.
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Waverly Health Center
June 14, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Waverly Health Center is hit by ransomware, causing the medical facility to shut down their IT systems.
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U.S. Electoral System
June 13, 2017
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[ espionage, government ]
New investigations reveal that Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
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Google News
June 12, 2017
Legitimate news sites listed on Google News replace articles with spam ads for drugs and dating sites. The incident occurred after two online wine magazine (Palate Press and the Boyne City Gazette) were hacked.
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Select Restaurant
June 9, 2017
Ohio-based Select Restaurant chain reports it suffered a point-of-sale breach during which customer payment card information was compromised. The breach took place between October 36, 2016 and February 3, 2017 at 12 of the company's restaurants.
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Al Jazeera Media Network
June 8, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing "systematic and continual hacking attempts". Internal sources reveal that the network is facing a DDoS attack.
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CD Projekt Red
June 8, 2017
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[ ransomware, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio maker behind the popular The Witcher 3 RPG, suffers a data breach and the attacker is holding the company for ransom, threatening to release stolen files if the game maker doesn't pay an undisclosed sum of money.
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Gordon Ramsay
June 7, 2017
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[ financial, hack, insider ]
The father-in-law of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is jailed for six months after pleading guilty to attempting to hack into his computer to steal financial information and 'dirty' secrets on the star for the hacking plot to crack into Ramsay's private email.
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Southern Oregon University
June 7, 2017
Southern Oregon University announces that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control.
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Montenegro
June 6, 2017
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[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Security firm FireEye reveals the details of a wave of attacks targeting Montenegro using spear-phishing, after its decision to join NATO.
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Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
June 6, 2017
APT28 has targeted the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with phishing emails by spoofing a NATO email address.
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A US voting software supplier
June 5, 2017
A new report reveals that Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to 122 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election.
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BTC-E
June 5, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
BTC-E.com, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform is the target of a DDoS Attack.
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Exposed VINs
June 5, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In June 2017, an unsecured database with more than 10 million VINs (vehicle identification numbers) was discovered by researchers. Believed to be sourced from US car dealerships, the data included a raft of personal information and vehicle data along with 397k unique email addresses.
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Steve Harvey's Funderdome
June 4, 2017
The Dark Overlord, which recently leaked ten episodes of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" makes a resurgence, releasing on the Pirate Bay a selection of eight episodes from ABC's upcoming network television show "Steve Harvey's Funderdome".
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Hotels
June 3, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Hotels.com sends an email to some customers advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were potentially stolen last month (between may 22 and 29).
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Stanford University Subdomain
June 1, 2017
For almost four months, one of Stanford's subdomains (Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University) has been compromised and used for hosting web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware.
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University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
