Russian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.
May 4, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Researchers from Crowdstrike reveal that Docker images with a download count of over 150,000 have been used to run DDoS attacks against a dozen of Russian and Belarusian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles
May 2, 2022
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Spanish government officials reveal that the mobile phones used by Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were infected with Pegasus spyware, a well-known surveillance tool made by Israel's NSO Group.
Government Agencies of Germany
May 2, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Over several days, the websites of German authorities and ministries have been targeted in a series of DDoS attacks. the targets included the Ministry of Defence, the Bundestag, the Federal Police and several state police authorities.
Government Agencies of Moldova
May 1, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A number of web pages belonging to public authorities were subjected to DDoS attacks. The attacks compromise equipment and networks, by exploiting security vulnerabilities and enrolling them in botnet network.
Worcester County
April 28, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
Worcester County discloses a breach of the county government email account which contained limited personal information belonging to about 3,000 government and board of education employee and retiree accounts.
State Bar of Georgia
April 29, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The State Bar of Georgia discloses an unauthorized access to its network.
Several public websites managed by the state entities in Romania
April 28, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, issues a statement about a series of DDoS attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities carried out by a pro-Russian group dubbed Killnet.
CT24
April 28, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A DDoS attack on a Czech television news channel
Elgin County
April 27, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Quantum ransomware gand drops leaked data samples on their TOR site.
Government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists
May 3, 2022
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Google's Threat Analysis Group reveals that the Russian threat actor Calisto is targeting government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists via phishing links directly in the email, linking to PDFs and/or DOCs hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.
Elgin County
April 28, 2022
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
The Conti ransomware group dumps the data allegedly leaked from Elgin County.
Costa Rica's Junta De Proteccion Social
April 24, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Costa Rica's Junta De Proteccion Social is added to LockBit 3.0's leak site, with the ransomware gang claiming to have about 7.8 GB of information.
Ukraine's national postal service (Ukrposhta)
April 22, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Ukraine's national postal service Ukrposhta is hit with a DDoS attack.
Secretary of State for Finance of Rio de Janeiro
April 22, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Secretary of State for Finance of Rio de Janeiro confirms that it was dealing with a ransomware attack on its systems.
Government of Costa Rica
April 19, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Several systems operated by the government of Costa Rica are hit by a Conti ransomware attack.
Israel Airports Authority
April 20, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
A pro-Iran hacking group named Altahrea Team hits the website of the Israel Airports Authority.
General Department of Troops and Civil Construction
April 19, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
In name of #OpRussia, the Anonymous leak more than 15,000 emails from the Russian General Department of Troops and Civil Construction
Rideau Hall
April 17, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
Rideau Hall discloses a "sophisticated computer breach.
Department of Education of the Strezhevoy City District Administration
April 16, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
DDOSecrets publishes 250,000 emails from the Deptartment of Education of a Russian City District Administration.
Bulgarian State Post Office
April 16, 2022
•[ hack, malware, government ]
On 16 April 2022 the Bulgarian State Post Office was hit by a significant cyberattack, which disrupted its operations. According to Bozhidar Bozhanov, Bulgaria's Minister of Electronic Governance, the malware was installed on 4 April 2022 and was activated in a specific time, when the Post Offices will be busy the most.
