German Unit of the Federal Chancellery
October 26, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Der Spiegel reports that Regin, the highly sophisticated state sponsored malware, has been discovered infecting the laptop computer of a head of the German Unit of the Federal Chancellery.
Dutch Safety Board
October 22, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
A threat actor attempted to compromise the networks of the Dutch Safety Board, the group charged with investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in Ukraine.
Blue House
October 21, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
South Korea's intelligence agency reports that North Korean hackers accessed servers belonging to the Blue House, the executive office of South Korea, and stole data from computers belonging to members of the nation's legislature.
South Korean Foreign Ministry
October 20, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
A threat actor compromised government networks affiliated with members of the South Korean parliament. The threat actor, believed to be North Korea, also attempted to compromise the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and the Blue House.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
October 16, 2015
•[ espionage, education ]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution declares to have suffered a "sophisticated, targeted attack" that allegedly originated from China. The breach turns out to have started back in February 2013.
Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
October 15, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Bloomberg reveals that the web page of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was comporomised with malware in July, during the the third day of the hearing on the territorial dispute in the South China. Suspects are directed to China.
Dow Jones & Co.
October 9, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, finance ]
A new breach targeting Dow Jones & Co. Bloomberg reveals that a group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers and stole information to trade on before it became public. The probe began at least a year ago.
LoopPay
October 7, 2015
•[ espionage, finance ]
The New York Times reveals that months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean electronics giant, was the target of a sophisticated attack by a group known as the Codoso Group.
Karla Micheel Salas
October 1, 2015
•[ 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 Karla Micheel Salas, a lawyer who represents the families of the victims of the 2015 Narvarte killings.
Mexican Lawyer
September 25, 2015
•[ 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 David Pe, a lawyer who represents the families of the victims of the 2015 Narvarte killings.
UK Cabinet Ministers
September 11, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
The Telegraph reveals that jihadists in Syria hacked into UK ministerial email accounts in a sophisticated espionage operation uncovered by GCHQ.
Marion Bowman
August 31, 2015
•[ espionage, hack ]
Marion Bowman, a top former FBI lawyer and U.S. counterintelligence official, reveals that alleged Chinese hackers penetrated his home computer last spring.
Emilio Aristegui
August 30, 2015
•[ 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 Emilio Aristegui, the son of a prominent journalist. He was a minor at the time of the targeting.
United States Department of Defense
August 6, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a "sophisticated cyberattack" against the Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system, which has been shut down and taken offline for nearly two weeks.
Donald Trump Corporate Website
August 3, 2015
•[ hack, espionage ]
Telecomix Canada hacks Donald Trump's corporate website (trump.com) sending a public thank you message to outgoing Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
Myanmar Ministry of Information website
August 1, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
A threat actor compromised the President of Myanmar website in an attempt to compromise visitors to those websites for espionage purposes.
Islam Channel
July 1, 2015
•[ espionage, technology ]
A threat actor compromised Islam Channel, a small UK TV station, in July 2015. In October 2018, the United Kingdom publicly attributed the compromise to Russian military intelligence.
Kaspersky Lab
June 10, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Kaspersky discoveres an advanced attack on its own internal networks. The company is confident that there's a nation state behind it and calls the malware Duqu 2.0.
Office of the President
May 31, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Vietnamese threat actor Ocean Lotus has compronised the websites of numerous entitities in Southeast Asia to be used for watering-hole attacks. Some of the organizations have also been targeted with malware aiming to install backdoors on their systems. The group has targeted ASEAN, China, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
May 22, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
Yemen Cyber Army defaces the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (services.mofa.gov.sa) and leaks plain-text login credentials of Saudi officials, conversations between embassies along with Embassies VSAT Communications. They also release, a few days after, some records of Saudi VISA Database, threatening to release 1M more. There is evidence that the Yemen Cyber Army is in fact a front for Iranian hackers.
