Unknown Organization
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Russian National Visa Bureau in the Netherlands (rnvb.nl) is hacked with the information of thousands of people exposed.
Election Assistance Commission
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Election Assistance Commission, the U.S. agency charged with ensuring that voting machines meet security standards, was itself penetrated by a hacker after the November elections, according to security firm Recorded Future.
Undisclosed Ukrainian banks
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
ESET reports that BlackEnergy, the same group who targeted Ukrainian utilities last December has been using the TeleBots malware against Ukrainian banks in the last month.
PayAsUGym
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2016, an attacker breached PayAsUGym's website exposing over 400k customers' personal data. The data was consequently leaked publicly and broadly distributed via Twitter. The leaked data contained personal information including email addresses and passwords hashed using MD5 without a salt.
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence
December 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Ukraine's defence ministry says that its website is down due to cyber attacks that appeared aimed at disrupting it giving updates on the pro-Russian separatist conflict in eastern regions.
ambru
December 12, 2016
•[ hack, sqlinjection, government ]
Kapustkiy claims to have stolen thousands of passport numbers and other pieces of personal information from the website of a Russian consular department (ambru.nl).
Ravish Kuma
December 9, 2016
•[ hack, social ]
The Legion collective hack the Twitter accounts of Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, two prominent journalists with Indian NDTV news channel.
Vijay Mallya
December 9, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked. The alleged hackers hijack Mallya's account and are currently leaking the industrialist's personal and sensitive information.
Kagoya
December 8, 2016
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.
Unknown Organization
December 7, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy and Kasimierz L, hack the website of the Argentinian Ministry of Industry (Ministerio de Produccion) and expose 18,000 accounts.
State Treasury Service of Ukraine
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine redirects the users to www.whoismrrobot.com. Also, the website of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine experiences a service disruption.
South Korean Cyber Command
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
North Korea appears to have hacked South Korea's cyber command in what could be the latest cyberattack against Seoul.
VTB
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
State-Owned Russian Bank VTB reveals to have been targeted by hackers with a DDoS attack.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
Eir Telecom
December 5, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Eir warns customers that 2000 of its modems have been compromised by the Mirai botnet.
National Assembly of Ecuador (asambleanacional.gob.ec)
December 4, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaches the National Assembly of Ecuador and leaks the data via PasteBin.
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
December 2, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Eight Saudi institutions are hit by a destructive cyber attack allegedly generating from Iran, carried on using a new version of the infamous Shamoon Malware. Among the victims is the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank.
Channel 2
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Two main news channels in Israel were hacked and the attackers broadcasted a 30-second clip showing images of Muslim holy sites and Quranic scriptures.
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Transportation
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
An Iranian threat actor used malware known as Shamoon 2.0 to compromise and destroy computers at the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia.
Post Office
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers have had their internet access cut by an attack targeting certain types of internet routers.
