Communist Party of Vietnam
August 1, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Recorded Future observe the Chinese state-sponsored group RedDelta targeting Mongolia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia with an adapted infection chain to distribute its customized PlugX backdoor.
Mongolian Ministry of Defense
November 1, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Recorded Future observe the Chinese state-sponsored group RedDelta targeting Mongolia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia with an adapted infection chain to distribute its customized PlugX backdoor.
Gateshead Council
January 8, 2025
•[ hack, government ]
Gateshead Council suffers a cyber attack.
Government bodies in Kazakhstan
January 13, 2025
•[ espionage, government ]
Researchers at Sekoia attribute the Russia-linked threat actors from APT28 to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Kazakhstan as part of the Kremlin's efforts to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia.
Organizations, businesses, and individuals in Japan
January 8, 2025
•[ espionage, government ]
Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) and National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NCSC) accuse a China-linked threat actor named MirrorFace of orchestrating a persistent attack campaign targeting organizations, businesses, and individuals in the country since 2019.
United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
January 7, 2025
•[ leak, government ]
The United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) announces it is investigating what it describes as a "reported security incident." 42,000 recruitment application data records are affected.
City of Corvallis (Councilor Paul Schaffer)
January 8, 2025
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
A Corvallis city councilor's email is hacked by a scammer and used to reach nearly 3,500 email addresses in an attempt to steal the recipients' personal information.
Turin Public Transport
December 27, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Pro-Russia threat actors from Noname057(16) target Italian ministries, institutions, critical infrastructure websites and private organizations in coincidence with the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Italy.
City of Winston-Salem
January 1, 2025
•[ hack, government ]
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, residents are not able to pay their utility bills online after a post-Christmas cyberattack knocked the city's systems offline.
Rosreestr
January 6, 2025
•[ hack, government ]
Silent Crow, a group of threat actors with unknown ties claims responsibility for breaching a Russian government agency, Rosreestr, which is responsible for managing property and land records.
Argentina's airport security police (PSA)
January 6, 2025
•[ financial, hack, government ]
Argentina's airport security police (PSA) falls victim to a cyberattack that reportedly compromised the personal and financial data of its officers and civilian personnel.
City of West Haven
December 25, 2024
•[ ransomware, government ]
The government of West Haven, Connecticut, says it is investigating a cyberattack that recently forced it to temporarily shut down all of its IT systems. The Qilin ransomware group claims responsibilty for the attack.
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
January 10, 2025
•[ espionage, government ]
Silk Typhoon Chinese state-backed threat actors reportedly breach the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a Treasury Department office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks.
Cox's BazarPolice and Khulna Metropolitan Police
January 1, 2023
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
Operation Endgame 2.0
May 23, 2025
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
In May 2025, a coalition of law enforcement agencies took down the criminal infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks in a new phase of "Operation Endgame". This followed the first Operation Endgame exercise a year earlier, with the latest action resulting in 15.3M victim email addresses being provided to HIBP by law enforcement. A further 43.8M victim passwords were also provided for HIBP's Pwned Passwords service.
Operation Endgame 2.0
June 23, 2025
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
In May 2025, a coalition of law enforcement agencies took down the criminal infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks in a new phase of "Operation Endgame". This followed the first Operation Endgame exercise a year earlier, with the latest action resulting in 15.3M victim email addresses being provided to HIBP by law enforcement. A further 43.8M victim passwords were also provided for HIBP's Pwned Passwords service.
Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil)
January 1, 2023
•[ leak, government ]
leaked and published
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
January 1, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
CDCR denies any wrongdoing
