Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services
July 6, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services has put out a notification stating that a number of employee email accounts were compromised in 2020.
Sheriff's Office for Cooke County, Texas
July 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Sheriff's Office for Cooke County is hit by a ransomware attack.
Trinity Metro
July 1, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The cybercriminals behind NetWalker publish online evidence of an attack on Trinity Metro, a transit agency that operates bus and commuter rail transportation services in Fort Worth and its nearby Tarrant County suburbs.
City of Duncannon
June 29, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Duncannon reveals to have been hit with a ransomware attack in April, which left many municipal computer systems inoperable and caused the borough to pay out more than $40,000 to the hackers to restore systems.
National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)
June 28, 2020
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is attacked by malware.
Delhi State Health Mission website
June 27, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
The Kerala Cyber Hackers claim they have accessed the personal data of 80,000 COVID-19 patients in New Delhi, in protest at the treatment of healthcare workers.
Eight cities across three states in the United States
June 26, 2020
•[ financial, malware, government ]
Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that eight cities across three states in the United States have fallen victim to a Magecart card skimming attack. The sites all appear to have been built using Click2Gov.
Brazilian government officials including president Jair Bolsonaro
June 26, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
The Brazilian federal police are investigating the leak of personal details of senior government officials including president Jair Bolsonaro.
Android users in Canada
June 24, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Researchers from ESET discover a malicious Android app in disguise of Canada's official COVID-19 tracing app, but hiding the CryCryptor ransomware.
Tax Collector's Office for Polk County
June 23, 2020
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Tax Collector's Office for Polk County blames malware found on an employee's computer for a data breach that affected around 450,000 residents of Polk County. The breach occurred in June.
Tallapoosa County Probate Office
June 20, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Tallapoosa County Probate Office is hit with a ransomware attack.
City of Lexington
June 17, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A Zoom meeting regarding issues surrounding police discipline is interrupted by callers shouting racist and homophobic remarks.
Atlanta Police Department
June 14, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous claim to have taken down the website of the Atlanta Police Department (atlantapd.org).
puebla
June 12, 2020
•[ hack, ransomware, leak ]
A Russian hacker named m1x breaches a Mexican government web portal (puebla.gob.mx) and three days later once the government refused to pay a ransom, publicly-releases some 14,000 Mexican taxpayer ID numbers.
City of Knoxville
June 11, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Knoxville, Tennessee, was forced to shut down its entire computer network following a ransomware attack that took place overnight and targeted the city's offices.
City of Keizer
June 10, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Keizer is hit with a ransomware attack, and is able to restore the data, paying the perpetrators a $48,000 ransom.
Government and military entities in Vietnam
June 10, 2020
•[ espionage, government ]
Researchers from Kaspersky reveal that China-linked cyber-espionage group Cycldek is showing increasing sophistication in a series of recent attacks targeting government and military entities in Vietnam.
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
June 9, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
Researchers from Cyble report that a threat actor is offering documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) on a dark web black-market.
City of Florence
June 5, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Florence, Alabama, is hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware.
Westech International
June 3, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The threat actors behind the Maze ransomware steal and leak the data of Westech International, a US military contractor.
