City of Sheboygan
October 31, 2024
•[ ransomware, government ]
Threat actors demand a ransom from officials in the city of Sheboygan, after launching an attack that caused network issues.
Tver Administration's Network
October 29, 2024
•[ hack, malware, government ]
A group with the moniker of Ukrainian Cyber Alliance claims to have taken down the Tver administration's network and to have wiped out dozens of virtual machines, backup storage, websites, email, and hundreds of workstations.
San Joaquin County Superior Court
October 28, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The San Joaquin County Superior Court says that nearly all of its digital services are knocked offline due to a cyberattack.
Sensitive government and police databases in Italy
October 25, 2024
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
Four people are arrested in Italy after a business intelligence company called Equalize is accused of hacking sensitive government and police databases to create dossiers for its clients.
U.S. Government
October 24, 2024
•[ financial, government ]
A threat actor appears to have stolen approximately $20 million in stablecoins and ETH from wallets belonging to the U.S. Government.
City of Coppell
October 23, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The RansomHub operation takes credit for a damaging attack on the city of Coppell, Texas.
Cyprus’ critical infrastructure and government websites
October 18, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Cyprus critical infrastructure and government websites are targeted in a series of coordinated cyberattacks claimed by several pro-Palestine hacker groups.
Moldova’s parliamentary email servers
October 17, 2024
•[ cyberattack, email security, election interference ]
Moldovas parliamentary email servers are hit by a cyberattack just ahead of the countrys presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union.
Westmoreland County
October 16, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County officials say the water and sewer utility has recovered more than $826,000 that was stolen in what it called a vendor impersonator scheme.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
October 15, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) reports that a cyberattack temporarily disrupted its website, coinciding with the start of the countrys general election campaign.
Government sites and nuclear facilities in Iran
October 12, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Government sites and nuclear facilities in Iran are hit by disruptive cyberattacks.
Russian general jurisdiction courts
October 11, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The websites of Russian general jurisdiction courts are down for several days following a cyberattack claimed by pro-Ukrainian hackers from BO Team.
Websites of the Senate of the Federal Parliament of Belgium, and the local authority in the southern Belgian region of Wallonia
October 7, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The websites of the Senate of the Federal Parliament of Belgium, and the local authority in the southern Belgian region of Wallonia are hit with a DDoS attack by the Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16).
VGTRK
October 7, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations, is targeted in a DDoS cyberattack on Putin's birthday, which a Ukrainian government source said Kyiv's hackers had caused.
Uttarakhand State Data Center
October 7, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
India's state of Uttarakhand is hit with a ransomware attack, targeting the Uttarakhand State Data Center.
Wayne County
October 3, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Wayne County in Michigan is dealing with an alleged ransomware attack that has shut down all government websites and limited the operations of several offices.
Governments and armed forces, think tanks, academic researchers, and Ukrainian entities
October 1, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Trend Micro reveal the details of a campaign carried out by the Russia-linked APT29 threat actor, leveraging malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration files.
Rafic Hariri International Airport
September 28, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Israeli cyber army allegedly hacks into the control tower of the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, and threatens an Iranian civilian plane attempting to land, forcing it to return.
National Dutch police (Politie)
September 27, 2024
•[ espionage, government ]
The National Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind a data breach detected the previous week.
19 stations, including London Cannon Street, London Bridge, Charing Cross, Clapham Junction, Euston, King’s Cross, Liverpool Street, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Reading, Guildford, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, Birmingham New Street, Leeds, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central
September 26, 2024
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
U.K. transport officials and police say they are investigating a cyber-security incident that hit the public Wi-Fi networks at the countrys biggest railway stations and displayed an anti-Islam message in the login page.
