City of Hamilton
March 6, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Hamilton is still recovering from a ransomware attack that has affected nearly every facet of government functions.
Russia
March 6, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
As Russia prepares for its presidential election, its systems are reportedly being targeted by massive cyberattacks, according to local authorities.
South Africa Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)
March 6, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Sensitive data on businesses and individuals in South Africa is at risk after a cyberattack on the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) agency.
Canada's FINTRAC
March 5, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Canadas financial intelligence agency FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada) announces pulling its corporate systems offline due to a cyber incident that struck over the weekend.
Russian Ministry of Defense (Minoborony)
March 4, 2024
•[ espionage, government ]
The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that it breached the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense (Minoborony) and stole sensitive documents.
Fair Vote Canada
March 2, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
In March 2024, the Canadian national citizens' campaign for proportional representation Fair Vote Canada suffered a data breach. The incident was attributed to "a well-meaning volunteer" who inadvertently exposed data from 2020 which included 134k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and, for some individuals, date and amount of a donation.
British Home Office
March 1, 2024
•[ espionage, government ]
Threat actors from APT29 working for Russias foreign intelligence service accessed corporate emails and data on individuals from the British government, after they breached Microsoft in January 2024.
Chunghwa Telecom
February 29, 2024
•[ espionage, leak, government ]
The Taiwan ministry of national defense says that threat actors stole sensitive information including military and government documents from Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwans largest telecom company and sold it on the dark web.
Multiple organizations in the U.S.
February 29, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC warn of Phobos ransomware attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure entities.
Municipality of Bjuv
February 27, 2024
•[ ransomware, government ]
The Akira ransomware group threatens to leak nearly 200GB of stolen data from Bjuv Municipalitys systems.
Los Angeles Airport
February 24, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
IntelBroker claims to have breached the database of the Los Angeles Airport, exploiting a vulnerability in the CRM system, and resulting in the compromise of 2.5 million records of plane owners.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
February 23, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's national police force, discloses that it recently faced a cyber attack targeting its networks.
Malawi Immigration Department
February 23, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Malawi government reportedly suspends issuing passports for the past two weeks due to what appears to be a ransomware attack on the immigration service's computer network.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
February 19, 2024
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services discloses a data breach after thousands of patients' personal and health information was exposed in a phishing attack impacting over two dozen employees.
MV Behshad
February 15, 2024
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
The U.S. conducts a cyberattack against MV Behshad, an Iranian military ship that had been collecting intelligence on cargo vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Goal is to prohibit the sharing of information with Houthi rebels.
DemandScience (formerly Pure Incubation)
February 15, 2024
•[ leak, government ]
The business contact information for 122 million people circulating since February 2024 is now confirmed to have been stolen from DemandScience, a B2B demand generation platform.
California Statewide Automated Welfare System
February 13, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The California Statewide Automated Welfare System discloses that more than 19,000 online accounts may have been accessed by threat actors for nearly a year.
Elector
February 12, 2024
•[ government, leak, technology ]
Researchers from Resecurity identify a data leak of 6,453,254 Israeli voter records due to the breach of Elector, an Israeli software application used to manage political campaigns.
Iraq Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC)
February 12, 2024
•[ leak, government ]
Researchers from Resecurity identify an individual who claimed to be selling a 21.58 database containing information about 24.3 million Iraqi citizens.
City of Coeur d'Alene
February 11, 2024
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The city of Coeur d'Alene announces it had detected malware in its computer network.
