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.
Bundestag
May 15, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
A Bundestag (German Parliament) official confirms media reports about a "sophisticated attack" on the institution. The attack was later attributed to Russia.
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
May 11, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
Singapore Minister of Information and Communications reveals that the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the victim of an advanced attack, last year, which forced the affected devices to be disconnected from the network.
Taipei Mayor's Office
April 14, 2015
•[ government, hack, espionage ]
The computer on the desk of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je's secretary is hacked. Investigators trace the perpetrator to China.
White House
April 7, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
Threat actors that are suspected to be from Russia have compromised unclassified White House networks using access from compromised networks at the State Department. The hack was first discovered in October 2014.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power
March 17, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, energy ]
The South Korean government issues a report blaming North Korea for network intrusions that stole data from Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), the company that operates South Korea's 23 nuclear reactors.
British Telecom
March 13, 2015
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
Internet traffic for 167 important British Telecom customers, including a UK defense contractor that helps deliver the country's nuclear warhead program, are mysteriously diverted to servers in Ukraine before being passed along to their final destination.
ASML
March 3, 2015
•[ espionage, manufacturing ]
The Dutch chip manufacturer ASML reveals to have been the victim of a cyber attack allegedly orchestrated by state-sponsored Chinese hackers.
Hanford Site
March 1, 2015
•[ financial, espionage, hack ]
Hackers conducted a combination of financially motivated and espionage-driven hacking operations against hundreds of companies, organizations, and research firms based in the United States and other countries, stealing terabytes of information. One of these targets was the Hanford Site, a Department of Energy nuclear waste complex. The two hackers, Li Xiayou and Dong Jiazhi, allegedly carried out their activities with the help of China's Ministry of State Security.
Chinese Academy of Engineering
February 25, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, education ]
The Chinese Academy of Engineering suffered a cyberattack from Poison Ivy; a group that has carried out numerous espionage campaigns against China.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
February 12, 2015
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
The Facebook page of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army which accuses the Observatory's head of collaborating with British intelligence.
Carmen Aristegui
January 12, 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 Carmen Aristegui, the director of Aristegui Noticias which reported on the "Casa Blanca scandal" which implicated the Mexican President's wife.
