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.
Village of Nashotah
December 7, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Village of Nashotah pays an unidentified hacker a $2,000 ransom to decrypt its computer system after a hack in late November.
Mecklenburg County
December 4, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Mecklenburg County, which includes the city of Charlotte and surrounding areas, is hit with ransomware and struggles to get its systems back online ever since. In the meantime, county officials are forced to revert to paper systems.
J. Sterling Morton school district
November 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
An in-development home made ransomware named J. Sterling Ransomware is discovered. This ransomware strain targets the high school students of the J. Sterling Morton school district in Cicero, Illinois by pretending to be a student survey.
National Capital Poison Center
December 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
National Capital Poison Center reports a ransomware incident.
Jerome School District
December 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Jerome School District falls victim to ransomware.
Oromia Media Network
December 6, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
FirstHealth
October 20, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The network of FirstHealth is hit by WannaCry and forced to suspend operations.
Politifact
October 13, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website devoted to checking the factual accuracy of US politicians' words, appears to have been hacked so that it secretly mines cryptocurrency in visitors' browsers via CoinHive.
NIC Asia Bank
November 4, 2017
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
NIC Asia Bank, based in Kathmandu, suffers a hack on its computer networks, which abused the SWIFT financial messaging system to help steal approximately $4.4m
Crunchyroll
November 4, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Crunchyroll.com is the victim of a DNS hijack attack, so the visitors are redirected to a malicious website designed to infect them with malware.
Dell
October 24, 2017
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
KrebsOnSecurity reveals that a web site set up by PC maker Dell Inc. to help customers recover from malicious software (DellBackupandRecoveryCloudStorage.com) may have been hijacked for a few weeks this summer.
Hyatt Hotels Corp.
October 12, 2017
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Hyatt Hotels Corp reveals to have discovered unauthorized access to payment card information at certain Hyatt-managed locations worldwide between March 18, 2017 and July 2, 2017.
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.
Golden Optometric
November 6, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Goldon Optometric informs some patients whose information was affected by a CrySiS ransomware attack.
Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville
November 1, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Two Ontario children's aid societies (Children's Aid Society of Oxford County and Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville) are hit by ransomware.
Coinhive
October 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The DNS records for coinhive.com are manipulated to redirect requests for the coinhive.min.js to a third party server hosting a modified version of the JavaScript file with a hardcoded site key and letting the attacker "steal" hashes from users.
San Ysidro School District
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Malware infects the San Ysidro School District, deleting emails and forcing the district to temporarily shut down part of its systems.
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center
September 27, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center disclose a ransomware incident that may or may not have resulted in access to protected health information of as many as 128,000 patients.
Swiss Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sports
September 15, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Switzerland's Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sports reveals to have detected a cyber attack carried on by the infamous Turla APT.
