Rafael Cabrera
May 18, 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 Rafael Cabrera, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
Daniel Lizarraga
May 18, 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 Daniel Lizarraga, a journalist working at Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity.
Alexandra Zapata
May 17, 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 Alexandra Zapata, an investigator at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
np
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpLGBT, the Anonymous take down a number of government websites in North Carolina.
Sebastin Barragn
May 12, 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 Sebastin Barragn, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
German Christian Democratic Union
May 11, 2016
•[ espionage, government ]
Security Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, is targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Stephanie Brewer
May 11, 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 Stephanie Brewer, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
Unidentified Israeli Org
May 2, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto reveal the details of Infy, a new targeted attack campaign dating back nearly a decade and likely to have originated from Iran.
Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.go.ke)
April 27, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
Anonymous In Kenya, leaks a trove of 1TB data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)
UK Ministry of Defence
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Up to 831 members of Britain's defence community with high-level security clearances had their personally identifying information stolen when the Ministry of Defence's business networking organisation was hacked earlier in November 2015.
Newark Police Department
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Newark Police Department is forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack.
Swedish air traffic control systems
April 12, 2016
•[ espionage, government ]
Despite the official reason being a solar storm, Sweden secretly suspects that a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence was responsible for an attack on its air traffic control systems last November.
Embassy of Russia in Armenia Twitter account
April 7, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Azerbaijani hackers from Anti-Armenia Team hijack the Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in Armenia (@rusembassyARM).
Nation Agency for Network Services
April 6, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
The Cyber Justice Team has taken responsibility for a big hack of Syrian government networks, which resulted in a massive 43GB data leak online.
gov.az
April 2, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In retaliation for the THT attacks, Monte Melkonian Cyber Army from Armenia defaces some Azerbaijani sites.
National Bank of Armenia
April 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A group of Turkish hackers going by the online handle of Turk Hack Team (THT) defaces some Armenian Government servers to claim their hold on the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Unidentified Angolan Government Websites #25
March 29, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In the name of #OpLusofonia, the Portuguese branch of the Anonymous defaces 28 Angolan government websites in retaliation for the recent sentencing of 17 activists.
Unknown Organization
March 27, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The database of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is breached and the personal information of 55 million voters potentially exposed in two consecutive attacks. The second attack was carried out by LulzSec Pilipinas
