U.S. Electoral System
June 13, 2017
•[ 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.
Montenegro
June 6, 2017
•[ 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.
Ismael Borquez
May 26, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Ismael Borquez, the director of R Doce and a colleague of Javier Valdez. Valdez was killed in May 2017 and was investigating organized crime in the state of Sinaloa.
Griselda Triana
May 25, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Ismael Borquez, the director of R Doce and a colleague of Javier Valdez. Valdez was killed in May 2017 and was investigating organized crime in the state of Sinaloa.
US Department of Defense
May 18, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A Times report suggests that Russia may have used Twitter as a tool of international espionage: agents of the Russian government could have sent malware-laced Twitter messages to more than 10,000 employees of the US Department of Defense.
Andres Villarreal
May 17, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Andres Villarreal, a journalist at R'o Doce and a colleague of Javier Valdez. Valdez was killed in May 2017 and was investigating organized crime in the state of Sinaloa.
Unnamed military contractor
May 15, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
TrapX reveals to have repelled an attack against an unnamed military contractor carried on by Iranian hackers using a Russian Toolset.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
May 12, 2017
•[ espionage, education ]
Reports emerge that two Singapore universities suffered APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks last month, with the attackers specifically targeting government and research data.
Energy networks of the Baltic states
May 11, 2017
•[ espionage, energy ]
Reuters reports that suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states.
Two German think tanks with ties to Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD)
April 26, 2017
•[ espionage, government ]
Trend Micro reveals that Kremlin-linked Fancy Bear hackers targeted two German think tanks with ties to Angela Merkel's ruling coalition parties Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Emmanuel Macron
April 25, 2017
•[ espionage, government ]
The same reports reveals that French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was targeted by APT28.
KCG Holdings
April 23, 2017
•[ insider, espionage, malware ]
The FBI arrests Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, accused of installing malware on his employer's servers to steal proprietary source.
National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)
April 6, 2017
•[ espionage, government ]
Fidelis Cybersecurity reveals that ahead of the trade summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a nation-state hacking group conducted espionage on a number of key industry players and lobbyists with links to the talks.
Anonymous
April 5, 2017
•[ espionage, technology ]
Anonymous members who want to participate in this year's annual #OpIsrael cyber-attacks are the targets of an intelligence gathering operation carried out by an unknown threat actor.
Defense Integrated Data Center
April 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
North Korean hackers have reportedly accessed OPlan 5027, the secretive war-plans drawn up by South Korea and the United States, detailing how the allied military forces would respond to the outbreak of war in the region " including first strike targets and troop deployments.
Bill Marczak
March 29, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
Yahoo!
February 15, 2017
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
Yahoo sends out another round of notifications to users, warning some that their accounts may have been breached as recently as last year. The accounts were affected by a flaw in Yahoo's mail service that allowed an attacker, most likely a "state actor", according to Yahoo, to use a forged cookie created by software stolen from within Yahoo's internal systems to gain access accounts without a password.
International Trade Union Confederation
February 14, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Amnesty International reveals the details of Operation Kingphish: a campaign of cyberattacks mainly targeting activists and journalists in Qatar and Nepal. One of the named victims is the International Trade Union Confederation.
Unnamed TV station in the UK
January 26, 2017
•[ espionage, malware ]
SecureWorks reveals that APT28 was able to infiltrate an unnamed TV station in the UK and stay undetected for 12 months starting from July 2015.
Mario Monti
January 11, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, finance ]
Italian siblings Giulio and Francesca Maria Occhionero are arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian politicians, businessmen and Masons using a variant of the malware family EyePyramid. Among the victims are the grand master of Italy's biggest lodge, the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and former Italian prime ministers, Matteo Renzi and Mario Monti.
