Fernando Doval
July 14, 2016
•[ 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 Fernando Doval, the communications secretary of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
July 12, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the same day the permanent court at The Hague rules for Philippines in the dispute against China for the islands in the West Philippine Sea, 68 Philippines government websites are taken down by a DDoS attack.
Unknown Organization
July 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In the name of OpAfrica, hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective hack Armscor, a Pretoria based arms procurement agency, and leak 63 MB data in HTML files that include invoices numbers, order numbers, invoice amount and other data from Airbus, Thales group, Rolls Royce, EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), and Denel.
Unknown Organization
June 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Legion claims responsibility for taking down the Minnesota Judicial Branch's website (mncourts.gov).
2,347 US Army personals
June 23, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
As part of #OpSilence, Ghost Squad Hackers publish a file containing data of 2,437 US Army personals including names, emails, phone numbers, full addresses, credit card data.
Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) posts a notice for a suspected security breach related to the on-line purchase of licenses and tags from the Department.
Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Africa takes down the websites of EFF and ZANU-PF, two black nationalist political parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
South Yorkshire Police
June 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Two Albanian hackers deface the South Yorkshire Police website.
Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ)
June 19, 2016
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, government ]
The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) fixes a security issue in their video conferencing software that allowed an unknown hacker to spy on their meetings and even access the video camera.
Ricardo Anaya Corts
June 15, 2016
•[ 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 Ricardo Anaya Cort s, the president of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
US government
June 14, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Palo Alto Networks reveals the details of a cyberespionage group called Sofacy, which has launched a fresh attack against the US government, using a "new persistence mechanism" designed to help evade detection.
Democratic National Committee
June 14, 2016
•[ espionage, government ]
Russian government hackers penetrate the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gain access to the entire database, dumping a 231-page document purporting to be opposition research into Donald Trump.
Petra News Agency
June 12, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Official website of Rep. Richard Neal
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
More than a dozen House Democrats' official websites are taken down, after Democrats ended an overnight sit-in to press for a vote on gun control legislation. The outage is affecting the congressional sites of Reps. Earl Blumenauer, John Carney, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Tammy Duckworth, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Marcy Kaptur, William Keating, John Larson, Jim McDermott, Richard Neal, Ed Perlmutter, Jackie Speier and Filemon Vela.
Roberto Gil Zuarth
June 15, 2016
•[ 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 Roberto Gil Zuarth, who was President of the Mexican Senate at the time of the targeting. He is also a member of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
Lorrie Cranor
June 7, 2016
•[ social, government ]
Lorrie Cranor, FTC's chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked by an ID thief.
Statistical Centre of Iran
May 24, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Statistical Centre of Iran is targeted by unknown attackers. Iran tracks the origin of the attack from three Arab countries including Saudi Arabia.
Unknown Organization
May 23, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker who goes by the nickname of Amar^SHG (formerly Kuroi'SH) defaces France's most visited weather portal, M t o France.
High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa
June 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Two Pakistani hackers dubbed "Romantic" and "Intruder" deface Indian government websites including the Embassy of India in Turkey; the Embassy of India in Greece; the Embassy of India in Mexico; the Consulate General of India in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Embassy of India in Bucharest, Romania; the Embassy of India in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and the High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa.
Unknown government-linked Louisiana database
June 9, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker under the pseudonym NSA puts on sale on the dark web a database that purports to hold over a quarter of a million driver licence records compromised from a government-linked databases in Louisiana, United States.
