San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS)
June 3, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS) suffers a data breach after an unauthorized person gains access to a database hosted in a test environment. The breach occurred on February 24, 2020.
Minneapolis Police Department
May 30, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous takes down the Minneapolis Police Department website in retaliation for the murder of George Floyd.
City government systems in Minneapolis
May 28, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
City government systems in Minneapolis are taken down by a DDoS attack.
City of Weiz
May 27, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Austrian City of Weiz is hit by the NetWalker ransomware.
Taiwanese military
May 15, 2020
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Trend Micro reveal the details of a campaign targeting the air-gapped networks of the Taiwanese and the Philippine military via the USBferry malware.
Texas Department of Transportation
May 14, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A new ransomware attack hits the network of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).
Interserve
May 13, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Interserve, a contractor for Britain's Ministry of Defence suffers a security breach, after hackers break into a database and steal up to 100,000 past and current employees details.
Wright County
May 13, 2020
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Wright County notifies residents of a phishing attack that occurred on January 31, 2019.
Bernards Township
May 11, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Bernards Township is hit with a ransomware attack.
Port of Bandar Abbas
May 10, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Iranian officials say that hackers damaged a small number of computers in a cyber-attack against the port of Bandar Abbas, the country's largest port in the Strait of Hormuz.
North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy and Finance
May 10, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
A Greek group called Powerful Greek Army leaks dozens of email addresses and passwords from staffers in North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy and Finance, as well as from the municipality of Strumica.
Shahid Rajaee Port
May 9, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack on Iran's Shahid Rajaee port that has caused significant backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility. The attack is apparently a response to an attempted Iranian hacking of Israeliwater distribution systems in April.
U.S. Marshals Service
May 8, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
A data breach at the U.S. Marshals Service exposes the personal information of current and former prisoners (387,000 individuals are affected). The breach occurred in December 2019.
Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA)
May 8, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) is hit by ransomware.
Nipissing First Nation
May 8, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Nipissing First Nation is hit by a ransomware attack.
Vietnamese government data center
April 30, 2020
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
The Chinese-linked threat actor Pirate Panda sent phishing emails to Vietnamese government officials located in Da Nang, Vietnam. It is believed that the group attempted to access the accounts of employees in a government data center as part of an espionage campaign to gain information on issues surrounding the territorial conflict in the South China Sea.
Wuhan government
April 22, 2020
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Vietnamese hackers have sent spear-phishing messages to the government of the Wuhan province as part of a campaign to gather information about China's COVID-19 response.
Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management
April 22, 2020
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Vietnamese hackers have sent spear-phishing messages to the China's Ministry of Emergency Management as part of a campaign to gather information about China's COVID-19 response.
Poland's War Studies University
April 22, 2020
•[ hack, government, education ]
Hackers breached Poland's War Studies University's website and posted a fake letter from the university's commander, urging Polish soldiers "to fight against the American occupation."
Service NSW
April 22, 2020
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Service NSW reveals to have fallen victim to a phishing attack occurred on April 22.
