Port of San Diego
September 25, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Service to the public in the Port of San Diego are impacted by a ransomware attack.
City of Beatrice
September 19, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
A virus shuts down many city operations including phone and internet services for several departments.
Town of Midland
September 1, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The small Canadian town of Midland, Ontario plans to pay off a $35,000 ransom to the malicious actors who shut down the municipalities computer system with a ransomware attack.
Cloquet School District
August 29, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Cloquet school district is hit by a ransomware attack second time in the past three years.
Undisclosed cryptocurrency exchange
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of Operation AppleJeus, an attack against cryptocurrency exchanges carried out via a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application distributing the Fallchill malware.
Amnesty International
August 1, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Amnesty International reveals to have been targeted by a campaign carried out via the surveillance malware developed by the Israel surveillance vendor, NSO Group.
Hwera High School
July 30, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
An anonymous computer hacker demands US$5000 from a Hwera High School to return course work they are holding for ransom.
City of Medford
July 25, 2018
•[ leak, malware, government ]
1,842 Medford residents are impacted by a City of Medford data breach after the city's online utility billing service is infected with malware. The breaches happened between February 18th through March 14th and March 29th through April 16th.
League of Legends Philippines'
July 15, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
League of Legends Philippines' confirms an unauthorized modification in their client lobby code resulting in the injection of the Coinhive Monero miner.
Groopdealz
September 14, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Groopdealz joins the list of the victims of the Magecart group.
Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP)
September 13, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Honolulu-based Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP) announces to have been hit by a ransomware attack that may have compromised patient data.
West Vancouver
August 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
West Vancouver warns thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on the district server used to store personal information collected through its website. The attack was discovered on July 31.
Cosmos Bank
August 11, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Cyber criminals hack the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphon off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries. Unidentified hackers stole customer information through a malware attack on its ATM server.
Ghanem al-Masarir
August 1, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted Ghanem al-Masarir, a Saudi dissident, for espionage purposes. The threat actor used the Pegasus tool, created by the NSO Group.
City of Valdez
July 31, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Also the City of Valdez is hit by CryptoLocker.
Government agency in the Middle East
July 27, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 unveils a targeted attack against a government agency in the Middle East carried out by a threat actor dubbed DarkHydrus.
COSCO
July 25, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware ]
A ransomware attack severely disables the U.S. network of COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), one of the world's largest shipping companies.
Klook Travel
June 29, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Klook Travel informs its users about a data breach incident it suffered. The attackers exploited a malicious JS code associated with SOCIAPlus, a third-party tool integrated on the site.
Middletown school district
June 28, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Middletown School District is hit by a ransomware.
Cass Regional Medical Center
July 10, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Cass Regional Medical Center, a Missouri health care center, announces that they have been affected by an undisclosed ransomware. This incident affected their internal communications system and their electronic health record (EHR) system.
