Russian Federal Research Institute
May 11, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
Part of the Anonymous collective claims to have leaked 466 GB of emails from the branch of a Russian Federal Research Institute
Unnamed Jordanian diplomat
May 11, 2022
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Fortinet discover a novel attack attributed to the Iranian hacking group known as APT34 group or Oilrig, targeting a Jordanian diplomat with custom-crafted tools.
Belton Police Department
May 9, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Belton Police Department is hit with a ransomware attack.
Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts
May 8, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to the Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts database.
Multiple government bodies in Costa Rica
May 8, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declares a national emergency following cyber attacks from Conti ransomware group on multiple government bodies.
Directorate General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN)
May 8, 2022
•[ ransomware, government ]
The Conti ransomware gang adds the intelligence Peru MOF " Direcci n General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN) to the list of its victims.
City of Quincy
May 7, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The City of Quincy is hit with a cyber attack.
CorpMSP
May 5, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
NB65, a group affiliated to the Anonymous leak a 482.5 GB archive containing 75,000 files, emails and disk images from CorpMSP. a federal institution providing support to small and medium-sized businesses.
ELTA Hellenic Post
May 5, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Vice Society encrypts network and threatens to leak data on their dark web portal.
Russian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.
May 4, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Researchers from Crowdstrike reveal that Docker images with a download count of over 150,000 have been used to run DDoS attacks against a dozen of Russian and Belarusian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.
Government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists
May 3, 2022
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Google's Threat Analysis Group reveals that the Russian threat actor Calisto is targeting government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists via phishing links directly in the email, linking to PDFs and/or DOCs hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.
Government Agencies of Germany
May 2, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Over several days, the websites of German authorities and ministries have been targeted in a series of DDoS attacks. the targets included the Ministry of Defence, the Bundestag, the Federal Police and several state police authorities.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles
May 2, 2022
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Spanish government officials reveal that the mobile phones used by Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were infected with Pegasus spyware, a well-known surveillance tool made by Israel's NSO Group.
Government Agencies of Moldova
May 1, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A number of web pages belonging to public authorities were subjected to DDoS attacks. The attacks compromise equipment and networks, by exploiting security vulnerabilities and enrolling them in botnet network.
State Bar of Georgia
April 29, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The State Bar of Georgia discloses an unauthorized access to its network.
Suhl. City in Germany
April 29, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Vice Society encrypts network and threatens to leak data on their dark web portal.
Elgin County
April 28, 2022
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
The Conti ransomware group dumps the data allegedly leaked from Elgin County.
CT24
April 28, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A DDoS attack on a Czech television news channel
Several public websites managed by the state entities in Romania
April 28, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, issues a statement about a series of DDoS attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities carried out by a pro-Russian group dubbed Killnet.
Worcester County
April 28, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
Worcester County discloses a breach of the county government email account which contained limited personal information belonging to about 3,000 government and board of education employee and retiree accounts.
