Establishment of the Agency for the Environmental Protection of the Marche Region
March 23, 2022
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
Vice Society encrypts network and threatens to leak data on their dark web portal.
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs
March 23, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A number of web pages belonging to public authorities were subjected to DDoS attacks. The attacks compromised equipment and networks, by exploiting security vulnerabilities and enrolling them in a botnet network.
ELTA
March 20, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
ELTA, the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece, discloses a ransomware incident that is still keeping most of the organizations services offline.
East Windsor Township
March 18, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The East Windsor Township's computer system has been compromised by unknown hackers
Russian Ministry of Emergencies
March 17, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The Anonymous deface the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.
Government Agencies of Ukraine
March 17, 2022
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Ukranian Ministry of Defense notified CERT-UA about the distribution of e-mails containing malicious files and targeting Ukrainian government and military entities. As a result of the attack, the victim's computer would be infected with SPECTR malware.
Federal Security Service (FSB)
March 15, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous collective takes responsibility for taking down top Russian government websites in a series of DDoS attacks. The list of the targets include the official website of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Stock Exchange, the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.
Regional Ministry of Health
March 15, 2022
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A hacker dubbed Spielerkid89 remotely accesses a computer belonging to a regional Ministry of Health in Russia, exploiting a VNC Server without authentication
Israel Government web sites
March 14, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Israel's National Cyber Directorate reveals that the country suffered a cyber attack that briefly took down a number of government websites.
Roskomnadzor
March 10, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
Anonymous breached the database of a Russian federal agency responsible for supervision of communication, information technology and mass media, and then released 820 GB of data from a sector of the agency:
- Over 360,000 files from the network, totaling 526.9 GB. Some as recent as March 5, 2022.
- Two directories containing the raw data files (290.6 GB). One appears to be a legal research database that was last modified in 2020. The other appears to be a database for HR procedures.
European diplomatic entity
March 8, 2022
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Researchers from Mandiant detect an incident where APT29 successfully phished a European diplomatic entity and ultimately abused the Windows Credential Roaming feature.
Russian Federal State Statistics Service
March 8, 2022
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Russian federal agencies' websites compromised in a supply chain attack. Attackers compromised the stats widget used to track the number of visitors. The attackers published their own content and blocked access to the websites.
Russian Federal Penitentiary Service
March 8, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The Anonymous collective claims to have defaced the official website of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service.
Numerous Ukraine sites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs
March 7, 2022
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Google's Threat Analysis Group confirms that DDoS attacks are currently ongoing against numerous Ukraine sites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs
Town of East Windsor
March 7, 2022
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The town of East Windsor officials confirm that the township experienced a cyber breach that wreaked havoc on its systems and is sending residents fraudulent emails.
Russian federal agencies including the Energy Ministry, the Federal State Statistics Service, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Bailiff Service, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Culture Ministry
March 7, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
Russia says some of its federal agencies' websites were compromised in a supply chain attack after unknown attackers hacked the stats widget used to track the number of visitors by multiple government agencies
Unknown Organization
March 5, 2022
•[ hack, government ]
The Anonymous linked group Ghostsec claims to have hacked the Department of Information Projects (homk.ru).
Gazprom
March 4, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
Anonymous-linked group ATW claims to have breached Gazprom and leaks its database
gov
March 4, 2022
•[ leak, government ]
The Anonymous collective leaks the database of the Russian Government website gov.ru
Russian Space Research Institute (IKI)
March 3, 2022
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Hacktivists from a group going by the Twitter handle of "v0g3lSec" deface a subdomain of the website of a Russian Space Research Institute (IKI) and leak some data.
