Ministry of Defence of Ukraine – Anti-Corruption Council election system
January 7, 2025
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
DDoS attack on Ukraines MoD online election for its Anti-Corruption Council. Over 1.1 million malicious requests blocked, including 300k from Belarus IPs. Attack attempted to disrupt voting but was contained the same day, and election integrity was maintained with ~101k Ukrainians successfully voting.
Rosreestr
January 6, 2025
•[ hack, government ]
Silent Crow, a group of threat actors with unknown ties claims responsibility for breaching a Russian government agency, Rosreestr, which is responsible for managing property and land records.
Argentina's airport security police (PSA)
January 6, 2025
•[ financial, hack, government ]
Argentina's airport security police (PSA) falls victim to a cyberattack that reportedly compromised the personal and financial data of its officers and civilian personnel.
Unnamed high-profile Ukrainian entities
January 2, 2025
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
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City of Winston-Salem
January 1, 2025
•[ hack, government ]
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, residents are not able to pay their utility bills online after a post-Christmas cyberattack knocked the city's systems offline.
Middlesex Sheriff's Office
January 1, 2025
•[ data breach, protected health information, HIPAA ]
The Middlesex Sheriffs Office reported that a security breach occurred in January 2025 and that a comprehensive investigation (with state/federal law enforcement and private cybersecurity vendors) determined on November 19, 2025 that the incident involved unauthorized access to protected health information. The exposed PHI may have included names, home addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other general health information related to individuals who may have received medical care through the Sheriffs Office. Public reporting indicated the breach represented a HIPAA-related incident; the organization did not specify the number of affected individuals in the public notice and did not disclose the initial access vector or whether any data was exfiltrated beyond unauthorized viewing/access.
Turin Public Transport
December 27, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Pro-Russia threat actors from Noname057(16) target Italian ministries, institutions, critical infrastructure websites and private organizations in coincidence with the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Italy.
City of West Haven
December 25, 2024
•[ ransomware, government ]
The government of West Haven, Connecticut, says it is investigating a cyberattack that recently forced it to temporarily shut down all of its IT systems. The Qilin ransomware group claims responsibilty for the attack.
Mi Argentina
December 25, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
The Mi Argentina site and the SUBE card app, two of the governments most important digital platforms, suffer a cyber attack.
European Space Agency
December 23, 2024
•[ hack, xss, government ]
The European Space Agency's official web shop is hacked as it started to load a piece of JavaScript code that generates a fake Stripe payment page at checkout.
Ukrainian State Registers
December 19, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Suspected Russian threat actors from the XakNet collective launch one of the largest cyberattacks on Ukraines state services in recent months.
Military personnel in Ukraine
December 18, 2024
•[ social, malware, government ]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) discloses that a threat actor tracked as UAC-0125 is leveraging Cloudflare Workers to trick military personnel in the country into downloading malware disguised as Army+, a mobile app that was introduced by the Ministry of Defence back in August 2024 in an effort to make the armed forces go paperless.
French Governmental and Critical Infrastructure
December 16, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The hacktivist collective Holy League launches a DDoS campaign against French governmental and critical infrastructure.
RIBridges (Rhode Island's Integrated Eligibility System)
December 13, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Rhode Island is warning that its RIBridges system, managed by Deloitte, suffered a data breach exposing residents' personal information after the Brain Cipher ransomware gang hacked its systems.
Thai Government Officials
December 13, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Netskope discover a campaign targeting Thai government officials through DLL side-loading to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Yokai.
Robeson County Government
December 10, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Robeson County, North Carolina confirmed that a December 2024 LockBit ransomware incident encrypted county servers and exfiltrated HR and payroll data. County operations were disrupted for about three weeks before full restoration in January 2025.
Ukrainian Defense Companies and Security and Defense Forces
December 7, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) discover a series of phishing emails targeting Ukrainian defense companies and security and defense forces with a fake NATO standards conference. Some recipients opened the phishing emails execiting the malicious RAR attachments.
Romania's Presidential Elections
December 4, 2024
•[ espionage, government ]
Romanias constitutional court annuls the first round of the countrys presidential election, citing Russian disinformation influence.
Chemonics
December 3, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
Chemonics, a large contractor for the U.S. government says a 2023 cyberattack exposed the critical personal information of more than 263,000 people.