City of Augusta
April 18, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Augusta municipal services are hit by a ransomware attack.
Ukrainian military
April 16, 2019
•[ espionage, phishing, malware ]
Researchers from FireEye reveal that multiple Ukrainian military departments were targeted by a spear phishing campaign which attempted to drop a RATVERMIN backdoor as part of a second-stage payload delivered with the help of a Powershell script.
City of Stratford
April 15, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Stratford is hit by a ransomware attack.
City of Stuart
April 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Stuart is hit by a Ryuk ransomware attack.
Garfield County
April 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Garfield County reveals it was the victim of a ransomware attack, crippling the work of city personnel for weeks before they were able to pay to get access to their own data.
Imperial County
April 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Imperial County is hit by a ransomware attack.
Dakota County
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
Dakota County notifies 1000 individuals of an incident occurred on February 13, 2019, when an email account belonging to one of its employees was accessed without authorization.
FBI National Academy Associates
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker group breaches three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Associates and uploads their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers.
City of Greenville
April 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Greenville is hit by the RobbinHood ransomware. A new strain that claims to protect the victim's privacy.
Lithuanian Ministry of Defense
April 10, 2019
•[ social, government ]
An orchestrated disinformation campaign hits the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense.
Minnesota Department of Human Services
April 9, 2019
•[ leak, government ]
Minnesota Department of Human Services announced to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people after an employee's email is compromised on March 26, 2019.
Unknown Organization
April 6, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The election results service in Finland is the target of a DDoS attack.
Training School of the First Scout Ranger Regiment
April 4, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
Emerging reports claim that the website of the training school of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, one of the Philippine Army's (PA) elite units, was hacked last year.
Genesee County
April 2, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Genesee County is hit with a ransomware attack and the county has been working non-stop to get their systems back online.
Belgian Interior Ministry
April 1, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
Belgian officials said that hackers breached the network of its interior ministry in a security incident that took place in April 2019. The investigation found that the threat actor's motive was likely espionage.
Raymond Houndjo
April 1, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Hackers used spyware, developed by Israeli technology firm NSO Group, that exploited a vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp to inject spyware onto the phones of opposition politicians and prominent religious leaders in Togo. The hack coincided with pro-reform protests in the country. Among the victims is Raymond Houndjo, a prominent member of the opposition party.
Elliott Ohin
April 1, 2019
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Hackers used spyware, developed by Israeli technology firm NSO Group, that exploited a vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp to inject spyware onto the phones of opposition politicians and prominent religious leaders in Togo. The hack coincided with pro-reform protests in the country. Among the victims is Elliott Ohin who has served in several cabinet roles.
City of Albany
March 31, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York, is hit by a ransomware attack, with city officials working over the weekend to respond to the incident.
Post Rock Rural Water District
March 27, 2019
•[ insider, misconfiguration, government ]
Kansas WWS is hacked by former employee able to use creditentials to remotely tamper with facility processes and threaten safety of drinking water.
U.K.'s Police Federation
March 21, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The U.K.'s Police Federation is hit by a ransomware attack.
