Pakistan National Portal
April 25, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The cyber battle between Indian and Pakistani hacktivists continues. In name of OpPakistan Indian hackers deface several Pakistani government websites.
International Civil Aviation Organization
April 21, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Montreal-based ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) is another target in a string of attacks by NullCrew.
Bangalore City Police
April 20, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of H4x0r10ux m1nd defaces the official website of Bangalore City Police India (bcp.gov.in).
Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party
April 19, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker called Muhammad Bilal from Pak Cyber Experts group defaces the official Bihar BJP website (biharbjp.org).
Veterans of Foreign Wars
April 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
About 55,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (vfw.org) may have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised after an unauthorized party gained access to a VFW web server using a remote access trojan.
German Aerospace Centre
April 15, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Germany's space research centre in Cologne is the victim of a co-ordinated and covert targeted attack carried out by state-sponsored hackers, according to a Der Spiegel report. Suspects are directed to China.
Ministry of Health
April 10, 2014
•[ hack, government, healthcare ]
Hackers of Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface the official website of prevention program of injuries and accidents - Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia (moh-ncd.gov.sa).
Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan
April 8, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of terrorist organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (umarmedia.com) is taken down by an Indian hacker called Godzilla.
Department of Culture, Media and Sport
April 7, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The verified Twitter account of the United Kingdom's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (@DCMS) is hacked over the weekend. The hacker posts three messages referencing MP Maria Miller on the compromised feed.
Albuquerque Police Department
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Albuquerque Police Department is the target of a DDoS attack carried on by the Infamous Anonymous collective.
Armed Forces Training Authority
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Yemeni hacker going with the handle of YMH defaces the official website of Egyptian Armed Forces Training Authority (mtc.edu.eg).
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist AnonGhost hacks and defaces the official website of Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, which is ran by Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle H4$N4!N H4XOR from Pakistan Haxor Crew hacks and defaces the official website of Pakistani consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against corrupt government in the country.
Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
California Department of Motor Vehicles
March 22, 2014
•[ financial, government ]
The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments. The Department states that its computers were not breached directly, but rather the breach happened to a card processor.
Julie Bishop
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop's followers to a phishing site.
Syrian National Coalition
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Syrian Electronic Army breaches and defaces the official website of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (etilaf.org). A number of other sites related to the organization have also been targeted.
Russian Industrial Investment Fund
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the Russian Cyber Command (@Rucyborg) claim to have hacked the computer of Alexandr Bagnuk, the president of the Russian Industrial Investment Fund, a semi-governmental investment company established by a decree of the president of Russia.
maidansupport
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists continue to launch attacks against Ukrainian government websites. The latest targets are the sites of the parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada (rada.gov.ua), the Right Sector nationalist movement (banderivets.org.ua), but also some Euromaidan websites.