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.
Westinghouse Electric Company
November 20, 2014
•[ espionage, energy ]
A threat actor targeted Westinghouse Electric Company, a nuclear power developer, for espionage purposes. One of the individuals alleged to be behind this incident, believed to be Russian military intelligence (known as GRU), was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department.
U.S. Postal Service
November 9, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
A threat actor compromised the networks of the U.S. Postal Service and gained access to employee data. Chinese threat actors are believed to be behind the attack.
Apple iCloud
October 20, 2014
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government's national firewall system, reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle attack on users of Apple's iCloud service within the country.
Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali
October 13, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The UK Police National Cyber Crime Unit is asked to investigate claims that computers and mobile phones used by exiled Bahraini pro-democracy activists living in the UK are under illegal surveillance. The three named victims are Dr. Saeed Shehabi, Jaafar al-Hasabi and Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali.
Valve
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
Four men between 18 and 28 are charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US Army and leading games manufacturers (Epic Games, Valve, and Zombie Studios), as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100M in intellectual property.
Undisclosed industrial software company
September 2, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
AlienVault reveals the details of Scanbox, a watering hole attack compromising the website of an industrial software company to collect information on the site's visitors.
Julie Bishop
August 18, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is the latest victim to be targeted by suspected state-sponsored phone hackers, having her smartphone seized by local intelligence officials after a two-week international sojourn.
Dnipropetrovsk Department of Law Enforcement
August 9, 2014
•[ hack, leak, espionage ]
Pro Russian Hacker collective CyberBerkut accesses the information resources of the regional department of the military law and order service in Dnipropetrovsk and leaks some private correspondence.
Office of the Prime Minister of Ukraine
August 8, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Dozens of computers in the Ukrainian prime minister's office and at least 10 of Ukraine's embassies abroad are infected with a cyber espionage weapon linked to Russia.
Israeli Defense Contractors
July 14, 2014
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Brian Krebs reveals that three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the Iron Dome missile shield were compromised by a well-crafted phishing attack and robbed of huge quantities of sensitive documents pertaining to the shield technology.
Office of Personnel Management
July 9, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The New York Times reports that in March, Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees (the Office of Personnel Management).
Finnish Foreign Ministry
July 2, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Finland admits to have been attacked by hackers working for one or several foreign nations who stole a "remarkable" number of files over a period of several years.
Houston Astros
July 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage ]
The systems of the Houston Astros baseball team are accessed by an unauthorized person, who extracted content revealing internal trade talks.
Belgian Foreign Ministry
May 12, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Unknown hackers steal data related to the Ukraine crisis from Belgian foreign ministry servers, prompting a security crackdown which has left diplomats without Internet or email.
