Williams & Connolly
October 8, 2025
•[ espionage, state-sponsored attack, data leak ]
Breach of U.S. law firm with major political clients linked to Chinese espionage campaign.
Wiley Rein LLP
July 12, 2025
•[ espionage, unauthorized access, state-sponsored attack ]
Firm notified clients that Microsoft 365 accounts of certain personnel were accessed in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation; suspected China-affiliated group.
Municipality of Tirana (City of Tirana)
June 20, 2025
•[ data leak, denial of service, state-sponsored attack ]
Iran-linked MOIS cluster EUROPIUM (Homeland Justice) conducted a coordinated cyberattack on Tiranas municipal government on Jun 20 2025, taking the city website offline and disrupting services; attackers claimed data theft and wiping of city databases; Microsoft and Albanian officials attributed the activity to MOIS-linked operators; restoration completed by Jun 24 2025.
Digital Realty
March 1, 2025
•[ state-sponsored attack, espionage, vulnerability exploit ]
The Ministry of State Security (MSS)linked group Salt Typhoon infiltrated Digital Realty and other data-center operators in early 2025 by exploiting vulnerabilities in network-appliance infrastructure and stolen credentials. Microsoft attributed the campaign to PRC state-sponsored espionage targeting Western critical-infrastructure providers.
Local media outlets in Azerbaijan
February 20, 2025
•[ targeted attack, data destruction, state-sponsored attack ]
Azerbaijans parliament commission head said APT29/Cozy Bear was behind a Feb 20 cyberattack that targeted internal servers at Baku TV and spread to other outlets, aiming to disrupt media infrastructure and alter/delete information; officials framed motive as retaliation over Russia-related media actions.
Undisclosed Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization
April 1, 2025
•[ malware, data exfiltration, wiper ]
The FSBs 18th Center for Information Security (Gamaredon) deployed PathWiper malware against an undisclosed Ukrainian critical-infrastructure operator in early April 2025, exfiltrating large volumes of operational data before executing a destructive wiper that caused temporary service degradation.
Harbin Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee
February 7, 2025
•[ cyberattack, state-sponsored attack ]
China accuses US of launching 'advanced' cyberattacks, names alleged NSA agents
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO)
March 30, 2025
•[ espionage, data leak, state-sponsored attack ]
In late March 2025, German officials reported a cyber-espionage incident targeting the Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Osteuropakunde (DGO), a nonprofit academic association focused on Eastern Europe. Investigators attributed the intrusion to Russias Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), also known as Midnight Blizzard, APT29, or NOBELIUM. Attackers accessed email servers and internal communications for intelligence-gathering purposes. No data encryption or operational disruption was reported, indicating a stealthy exploitation of application servers.
Kurdish forces
May 14, 2025
•[ espionage, vulnerability, zero-day ]
Turkey-linked espionage operators exploited a zero-day in Output Messenger to surveil Iraq-based Kurdish forces, collecting communications and device data; Microsoft attributed the activity to a Turkey-aligned group focused on intelligence collection.
Undisclosed online casino operator
October 20, 2024
•[ Data exfiltration, State-sponsored attack, Reconnaissance ]
Recorded Future analysis identified reconnaissance and FTP exfiltration traffic from a Costa Rican online casino targeted in the Contagious Interview campaign (OctNov 2024), attributed to the NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau (North Korea).
Undisclosed cryptocurrency market-making firm
October 20, 2024
•[ data exfiltration, cryptocurrency, state-sponsored attack ]
Recorded Future observed C2 reconnaissance followed by FTP exfiltration from a market-making firm in the UAE during the Contagious Interview campaign (OctNov 2024). Attributed to the NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau (North Korea).
Multiple Organizations in Asia
February 6, 2025
•[ espionage, backdoor, credential theft ]
Evasive Panda, a Chinese state-sponsored group operating under the Ministry of State Securitys Guangdong State Security Department / Technical Reconnaissance Bureau, deployed a custom SSH backdoor across enterprise network devices to exfiltrate credentials and maintain long-term covert access in espionage operations identified by Cisco Talos in February 2025.
