Ministry of Tourism
January 7, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The official websites of the Presidents office, Foreign Ministry, and Tourism Ministry in Maldives are taken down by a DDoS attack allegedly carried out by threat actors from China.
Bangladesh Election Commission
January 7, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
An official at the Bangladesh Election Commission claims that a cyberattack from Ukraine and Germany caused an election information app, Smart Election Management BD, to crash as voters went to the polls.
Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (HACSB)
January 4, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino notifies nearly 19,000 people that their information was compromised in a June cyberattack.
Pays Fouesnantais
January 2, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Pays Fouesnantais, a coastal township in Brittany in northwestern France, announces his municipal authority had been hit by a large-scale cyberattack that had taken down all of its community services.
England and Wales Cricket Board
January 1, 2024
•[ government ]
unknown
National Police Corps of the Netherlands
January 1, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
BelTA
December 31, 2023
•[ hack, government ]
Belarusian hacktivists from the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans collective shut down BelTA the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups. The group claims its actions were retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
Radioactive Waste Management
December 31, 2023
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Threat actors try to break into Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) using LinkedIn lures.
National Insurance Board (NIBTT)
December 24, 2023
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The National Insurance Board (NIBTT), a key government agency in Trinidad and Tobago that runs the nation's social security system, is hit with a ransomware attack that will limit its operations for at least the rest of the year.
Ohio Lottery
December 24, 2023
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Ohio Lottery is forced to shut down some key systems after a cyberattack affected an undisclosed number of internal applications on Christmas Eve. The DragonForce ransomware gang claims responsibility for the attack.
Albanian Parliament
December 22, 2023
•[ espionage, government ]
The Albanian parliament is targeted by a cyber attack, whose responsibility is claimed by an Iran-linked threat group known as Homeland Justice.
Clay County
December 22, 2023
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Clay County announces that it fell victim to a ransomware attack.
State-owned research company in Russia
December 19, 2023
•[ espionage, government ]
Researchers from F.A.C.C.T. discover a new campaign from the threat group known as Cloud Atlas, targeting a state-owned research company in a new espionage campaign.
National Securities and Stock Market Commission in Ukraine
December 18, 2023
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Russian threat actors from the NoName057(16) group claim to have taken down the National Securities and Stock Market Commission in Ukraine.
Nepalese government officials
December 15, 2023
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Cyfirma discover a malicious campaign by the threat actor known as Sidewinder targeting Nepalese government officials via the Nim backdoor.
Government entities in Ukraine
December 15, 2023
•[ espionage, rce, government ]
Researchers from Deep Instinct reveal that an unknown threat actor targeted government entities in Ukraine toward the end of 2023 using an old Microsoft Office remote code execution (RCE) exploit from 2017 (CVE-2017-8570) as the initial vector and military vehicles as the lure.
Organizations in israel
December 14, 2023
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from ESET discover a new campaign from the APT34 cyber-espionage group linked to the Iranian government against organizations in Israel and leveraging several new malware downloaders: ODAgent, OilCheck and OilBooster.
Westpole
December 12, 2023
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang targets the Italian cloud service provider Westpole, which is specialized in digital services for public administration. The incident impacts PA Digitale, the government agency that offers services to various local and government organizations.
Russian Federal Taxation Service
December 12, 2023
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) says it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service (Russian Federal Taxation Service - FNS) with malware, and destroyed databases and backups.
