US Customs and Border Protection
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency report on incidents where drug traffickers have hacked unmanned air vehicles (UAVs, drones) in order to illegally and secretly cross the US-Mexican border.
BBC
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
All of the BBC's websites are unavailable following a DDoS attack.
http://www
December 30, 2015
•[ hack ]
An unknown hacker hacks psicamp.it and dumps 2,049 usernames and passwords.
Kasganj News Portal
December 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan. A local news portal of Kasganj district (kasganjlive.in) is hacked by a Pakistani hacker called Mr 4nOnymOus.
Linode
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Virtual server host Linode is the target of a four day-long DDoS attack.
Rutgers University
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Rutgers University is the target of a large-scale DDoS attack that keeps some of its systems down for four days between December 24 and December 28.
http://tunesoman
December 28, 2015
•[ hack, retail ]
An unknown hacker hacks tunesoman.com and dumps 7,343 usernames and passwords.
Isbank
December 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous claims responsibility for the wave of DDoS attacks against Turkey (accusing the government of supporting ISIS) and starts a second wave against some Turkish leading banks such as Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank.
Unknown Organization
December 25, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Members of the Anonymous hacker collective deface the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gain access to the site's admin panel and also manage to get their hands on a database dump.
EA
December 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad, the group of hackers who threatened to ruin Christmas for gamers decide to keep their promise and take down the Electronic Arts servers.
Prykarpattiaoblenergo
December 23, 2015
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
The Ukrainian government blames power outages in western Ukraine on hacker attacks by Russian special services. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), malware has been found in the networks of some utilities. Moreover, these malware intrusions coincided with a non-stop telephone flood at utility plants and technical support departments, according to local reports.
Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
Juniper Networks
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Juniper Networks issues an urgent security advisory about "unauthorized code" found within the operating system used by some of the company's firewalls and Secure Service Gateway appliances.
NIC
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
City of Boston
December 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several Internet services in Boston are disrupted by a DDoS attack, defined as a "minor act of cybervandalism" . The outage, affects city agencies and the police and fire departments.
Easily
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In a letter to customers, UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk reveals to have suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names.
Danish Parliament
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Danish Parliament website folketinget.dk is taken offline in a DDoS attack.
Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
Swedish House Mafia Facebook Page
December 10, 2015
•[ hack ]
The Facebook page of the Electronic Dance Music Group Swedish House Mafia is hacked and the attacker posts some offending images of Miley Cyrus.
DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
