Belgium's trade mission to China
November 23, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
Belgium's trade mission to China suffers a "massive cyber-attack." China State Security is indicated as the possible culprit.
Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
November 25, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
Gamaredon, a Russian-speaking APT, targeted Ukrainian government entities, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from September to November 2019.
Fergana News
October 31, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Unit 02616 of Uzbekistan's National Security Service used FinFisher, a German spyware, to attack dissidents. Among the targets is Fergana News a regional news outlet that reports on the Uzbek government.
Eltuz
October 31, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Unit 02616 of Uzbekistan's National Security Service used FinFisher, a German spyware, to attack dissidents. Among the targets is Eltuz a regional news outlet that reports on the Uzbek government.
Palestine Chronicle
October 31, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Unit 02616 of Uzbekistan's National Security Service used FinFisher, a German spyware, to attack dissidents. Among the targets is the Palestine Chronicle a regional news outlet that reports on the Uzbek government.
Czech Republic
October 21, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
Czech government officials reveal that they dismantled a Russian cyber-espionage network operating in the country. The attack occurred in March.
Khaled Dawoud
October 3, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Khaled Dawoud, a former journalist and leader of the Constitution Party.
Maati Monjib
October 10, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Amnesty International released a report showing how Morocco's government used the NSO Group's Pegasus malware to target two human rights activists in Morocco. The second target is Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui, a human rights lawyer.
An official with the Egyptian-Canadian Coalition for Democracy
October 3, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is an official with the Egyptian-Canadian Coalition for Democracy who was targeted after his organization published a video of an Egyptian government minister making threatening gestures during a speech.
Hassan Nafaa
October 3, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, education ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Hassan Nafaa, a political scientist at Cairo University.
US petroleum industry
October 1, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Netskope discover a campaign against the US petroleum industry carried out via a new Adwind Remote Access Trojan (RAT) variant.
Japanese government agencies
October 2, 2019
•[ espionage, government, malware ]
Researchers at JPCERT reveal the details of a campaign targeting Japanese government agencies and exploiting a vulnerability in the local Sanshiro spreadsheet application (CVE-2014-0810).
kaunas.kasvyksta.lt
September 25, 2019
•[ hack, espionage, information ]
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.
Czech Foreign Ministry
August 13, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
According to a parliamentary committee, a foreign state is believed to be behind a cyberattack on the Czech Foreign Ministry.
Office of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain
August 7, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor broke into the systems of Bahrain's National Security Agency, Ministry of Interior, and office of the first deputy prime minister. On July 25, 2019, Bahraini authorities detected intrusions into its electric and water authority that shut down several systems. The attacks were similar to two hacks in 2012, in which the Shamoon virus was used to knock Qatar's natural gas firm RasGas offline and wipe data from the hard drives at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national oil company. Iran is believed to be behind the attacks.
Government in Eastern Europe
July 10, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from ESET discover a zero-day exploit (CVE-2019-1132), deployed in a highly targeted attack in Eastern Europe.
APT17 (AKA Deputy Dog and Axiom)
July 24, 2019
•[ 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.
Croatian government
July 5, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A new report reveals that Croatian government employees have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor between February and April this year, via the Empire and SilentTrinity backdoors.
Yandex
June 27, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Reuters reveal that hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018. Apparently the attack was carried out with a Regin variant.
Russia's electric power grid
June 15, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, energy ]
The New York Times, citing current and former government officials, reveals that the United States planted a potentially destructive malware in Russia's electric power grid.
