Saint Paulus Lutheran Church
May 6, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Saint Paulus Lutheran Church sues video chat company Zoom after a hacker allegedly hijacked a virtual Bible study class to post graphic images of child abuse.
Mercedes-Benz Instagram account
May 5, 2020
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Unknown hackers post swastikas on the Mercedes-Benz Instagram account.
Xen Orchestra
May 3, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Xen Orchestra, a platform that provides tools to administrate Citrix Hypervisor is also compromised via the Salt vulnerability.
Florida Gulf Coast University
May 3, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
A virtual ceremony by Florida Gulf Coast University is disrupted by a DDoS attack.
LineageOS
May 2, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers breach the main infrastructure of the LineageOS Android, causing a full outage. The attackers exploited a high-severity vulnerability in the open source "Salt" management framework that was disclosed to the public on April 30.
Pitney Bowes
May 11, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Pitney Bowes suffers a cyber attack for the second time in few months. The attackers are detected but manage to steal some files.
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.
Formosa Petrochemical Corp.
May 5, 2020
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
Formosa Petrochemical Corp. is hit by a malware attack.
Fitness class
May 5, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A Zoom hacker scares a group of about 60 children taking part in a fitness class, streaming child sex abuse footage.
Tokopedia
May 3, 2020
•[ hack, brute-force, retail ]
A hacker sells a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for $5,000. Other threat actors start to crack passwords and share them online.
Ghost
May 3, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The blogging platform Ghost is compromised exploiting the Salt vulnerability. The attackers install a cryptominer.
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.
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.
Gilead Sciences
May 8, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. in recent weeks, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus.
Giannis Antetokounmpo's Twitter account
May 7, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
NBA Milwaukee Bucks' player Giannis Antetokounmpo's Twitter account is hacked.
Algolia
May 3, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Search service Algolia says it suffered a security breach over the weekend after hackers exploited a well-known vulnerability in the Salt server configuration software to gain access to its infrastructure.
Columbus City Schools
May 1, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Columbus City Schools have notified an undisclosed number of people that an employee's email account was breached in May.
Believr
April 20, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hackers infiltrate a Zoom meeting of a virtual church service hosted by Adam Evers, the founder of the Christian LGBTQ+ dating app Believr.
Uniswap
April 19, 2020
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers try to attack the Uniswap cryptocurrency exchange but the attack is unsuccessful.
UniCredit
April 19, 2020
•[ hack, sqlinjection, finance ]
Researchers from Tesly reveal that data on about 3,000 UniCredit SpA employees was put up for sale on cybercrime forums after an SQL Injection attack.
