Landmark Admin
May 13, 2024
•[ leak, hack, government ]
Insurance administrative services company Landmark Admin warns that a data breach impacted over 800,000 people from a May cyberattack.
Polish government institutions
May 9, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Polands computer emergency response team, CERT-PL, reveals that it had observed a large-scale malware campaign targeting Polish government institutions, likely carried out by the hacker group APT28, associated with Russias military intelligence agency, the GRU.
Kosovo government websites
May 7, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Pro-Russia threat actors target Kosovo government websites, including the websites of the president and prime minister, with DDoS attacks. The attacks are a retaliation for Kosovos support of Ukraine with military equipment.
City of Wichita
May 3, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Wichita, Kansas, discloses it was forced to shut down portions of its network after suffering a weekend ransomware attack. The LockBit ransomware operation claims responsibility for the attack.
South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
May 1, 2024
•[ hack, financial, government ]
The South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DJ&CD) suffers a cyber security incident affecting child maintenance payments.
Equinox
April 29, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Equinox notifies clients and staff members about a data security incident on April 29 due to a LockBit 3.0 ransomware attack.
Kansas City Scout Traffic Management System
April 25, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Kansas City Scout System is taken down by a cyberattack.for 3 months
Illinois Department Of Human Services
April 25, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The Illinois Department Of Human Services reveals that a phishing attack affected more than 1.1M public assistance clients.
Czech News Agency (CTK)
April 24, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
An unidentified threat actor hacks the website of Czech News Agency (CTK) a government-owned Czech news service, and publishes a fake story claiming that an assassination attempt had been made against the newly elected Slovak president, Petr Pellegrini.
Government of British Columbia
April 18, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Government of British Columbia is investigating multiple "cybersecurity incidents" that have impacted the Canadian province's government networks.
New York Bill Drafting Commission
April 17, 2024
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The New York Bill Drafting Commission is taken down by a malware attack.
Argentina's driver licenses
April 16, 2024
•[ hack, leak, government ]
A threat actor allegedly hacks a database holding 5.7M Argentinas drivers licenses, requesting a payment of $3,000 USD for whoever wishes to purchase the images of Argentine licenses.
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
April 15, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) suffers an 8Base ransomware attack.
Israel's radar system
April 14, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
An Iranian cyber group named Handala claims to have breached Israel's radar systems and sent hundreds of thousands of threatening text messages to Israeli citizens.
Municipalities of Saint-Nazaire, Montoir-de-Bretagne, Donges, La Chapelle-des-marais and Pornichet
April 11, 2024
•[ ransomware, government ]
Five municipalities near the river Loire on the west coast of France are hit by a LockBit ransomware attack on their shared computer servers, leaving staff without the ability to access documents or get on with their work.
Moskollector
April 10, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Blackjack, a Ukrainian hacker group affiliated with the countrys security service claims to have targeted Moskollector, the firm that operates the communication system for Moscows sewage network.
Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (epp.genproc.gov.ru)
April 6, 2024
•[ hacktivism, data leak, criminal cases ]
The RGB group, self-identifying as a hacktivist collective, also has asserts responsibility for breaching the Prosecutors Office of the Russian Federation (epp.genproc.gov.ru). To substantiate their claim, the group leaked an Excel file containing precisely 100,000 lines of information about criminal cases from 2013.
Russia’s prosecutor general
April 4, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
A group of hacktivists going by the name RGB-TEAM claims responsibility for hacking into the website of Russias prosecutor general, exposing data on criminal offenses committed in Russia over the past 30 years.
Filipino Department of Science and Technology
April 4, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpEDSA, a Filipino hacktivist group operating under the pseudonym "ph1ns," breaks into servers owned and operated by the government's Department of Science and Technology and deletes up to 25 terabytes of confidential data and backups.
Political Parties in Germany
April 4, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The German Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution warn that phishing attacks targeting political parties surged ahead of upcoming European Union elections.
