Mad River Township Fire and EMS station
December 4, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Mad River Township Fire and EMS station has all its data encrypted by ransomware.
Brazil
December 2, 2017
•[ leak, government ]
The Anonymous leak some topology data belonging to Brazilian public sector.
Sacramento Regional Transit system
November 19, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Sacramento Regional Transit system is hit by destructive ransomware, and the attackers threaten to do more damages if the SacRT doesn't pay them the equivalent of $8,000 in bitcoins.
Montgomery County, IL
November 17, 2017
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency reported that much of the county's computer system went down last week due to what it is calling a malware incident.
Italian government
November 11, 2017
•[ leak, phishing, government ]
The Anonymous collective publishes some internal documents stolen from the email accounts of some government employees.
North Korean Radio station on 6400kHz
November 9, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A North Korean radio station is reportedly hijacked by an unknown hacker to play the 1980's hit song "The Final Countdown". The short-wave radio station, 6400kHz is known to be used by Pyongyang to transmit secret codes.
City of Spring Hill
November 8, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee is hit by a ransomware attack. The attackers demand a $250,000 ransom.
Prince Albert Police homepage
November 8, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers from Team System Dz deface the Prince Albert Police homepage and leave the message "I love Islamic State".
Midland County
October 27, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Midland County District Attorney warns residents after their third-party payment system is hacked.
Czech Statistical Office (CSU)
October 21, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Two websites run by the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) are taken offline after a DDoS attack tries to disrupt reporting of the country's parliamentary elections.
Sweden Transport Administration (Trafikverket)
October 11, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A DDoS attack targets the Sweden Transport Administration (Trafikverket)
John Kelly's personal cellphone
October 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials.
4,000 NATO soldiers
October 4, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Russian hackers have so far accessed the phones of 4,000 NATO troops in Europe.
North Korea's Reconaissance General Bureau
September 30, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
U.S. government officials told the Washington Post that the United States had launched a denial of service campaign against North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country's intelligence agency.
national-lottery
September 30, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Camelot reveals that a DDoS attack took down the website of the National Lottery.
Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority (GEA)
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority (GEA), says that its website had been the target of cyber attacks from outside the kingdom.
Minsk Operational Administration of the Armed Forces
September 28, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted the government of Belarus for espionage purposes, using a tool known as Travle or PYLOT, which is believed to be an update of malware used by NetTraveler. Between June and August the threat actor sent a total of 20 unique emails to various government entities. The emails contained a series of subject lines revolving around Zapad-2017, a joint exercise between the Russian and Belarusian militaries.
Toms River Police Department
September 28, 2017
•[ leak, government ]
The township of Toms River plans to notify about 3,700 people that their personal information may have been compromised by a data breach inside the police department over the summer.
Danish Ministry Foreign Affairs
September 28, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Ministry of Immigration and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, are hit by a DDoS attack thought to have come from a Turkish hacker group dubbed Aslan Neferler Tim.
UAE government
September 17, 2017
•[ leak, espionage, government ]
A trove of leaking emails belonging to the UAE government reveals an alleged plot to "conquer" Qatar.
