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KMOV
May 4, 2016
Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign targeting visitors to two TV stations (KMOV and WBTV) affiliated with the American CBS TV network.
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Bank of Greece
May 3, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Anonymous Kick off OpIcarus and take down the Bank of Greece.
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Union League Club
May 3, 2016
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[ financial, insider, malware ]
Union League Club says it is working with the FBI to investigate a security breach involving guests' credit card information. An employee accused to have installed malicious software is fired.
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Unidentified Israeli Org
May 2, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto reveal the details of Infy, a new targeted attack campaign dating back nearly a decade and likely to have originated from Iran.
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70 US military staff
May 2, 2016
A group claiming to be British hackers supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) publishes a 'hit list' of more than 70 US military staff who have allegedly been involved in drone strikes against terrorists in Syria.
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Alpha Payroll Services
May 2, 2016
Alpha Payroll Services notifies that an employee has fallen victim of a phishing scam targeting clients' 2015 employee W-2 information.
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majorgeeks
May 1, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
270,000 reccords from majorgeeks.com appear on the dark web.
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GameVN
May 1, 2016
In May 2016, the Vietnamese gaming forum GameVN suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. Data breached from the XenForo-based forum included 1.4M unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
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Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
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[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
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3,600 New York residents
April 29, 2016
A group of hackers linked to the Islamic State releases a hit list of thousands of New York residents, urging the militant group's followers to target them.
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Brunswick Corp.
April 29, 2016
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[ phishing, manufacturing ]
Brunswick Corp. is the last victim of a spear phishing scam that allows the attackers to steal W-2 information for possibly all 13,000 current and former company employees.
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Maisto
April 29, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, is caught pushing ransomware.
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17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
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Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
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Solano Community College
April 28, 2016
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
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Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.go.ke)
April 27, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
Anonymous In Kenya, leaks a trove of 1TB data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Lucky Pet
April 27, 2016
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[ leak, retail ]
LuckyPet notifies the California State Attorney General's office of a data breach that compromised online customer information.
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The Pirate Bay
April 27, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
