Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo
November 27, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
Refinadora Costarricense de Petrleo (RECOPE), the state-owned energy provider for Costa Rica is hit with a ransomware attack, requiring the company to shift to manual operations and call in help from abroad.
City of Coppell
October 23, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The RansomHub operation takes credit for a damaging attack on the city of Coppell, Texas.
Richmond University Medical Center
May 6, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Richmond University Medical Center in New York is investigating a ransomware attack since May 2023 and it recently determined that the incident resulted in a data breach affecting more than 670,000 people.
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
November 20, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The RansomHub operation takes credit for a damaging attack on the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
Blue Yonder
November 21, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Supply chain management firm Blue Yonder warns that a ransomware attack caused significant disruption to its services, with the outages impacting grocery store chains in the UK.
Human rights groups, private security companies, and state and educational institutions in Central Asia, East Asia, and Europe
November 21, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Recorded Future identify an ongoing Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign targeting human rights groups, private security companies, and state and educational institutions in Central Asia, East Asia, and Europe using custom malware.
Mexico Legal Affairs Office
November 20, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Mexicos president Claudia Sheinbaum says that the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack of her administrations legal affairs office after what appeared to be samples of personal information from a database of government employees were posted online.
American Associated Pharmacies
November 18, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, retail ]
Ransomware group Embargo threatens to publish nearly 1.5 terabytes of data allegedly stolen in an attack on American Associated Pharmacies, a collaborative of 2,000 independent pharmacies.
Undisclosed nuclear-related organization
October 1, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, energy ]
Researchers at Kaspersky reveal that the Lazarus Group, the threat actor linked to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a "complex infection chain" targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization. The attacks, part of Operation Dream Job, culminated in the deployment of a new modular backdoor referred to as CookiePlus,
Governments and armed forces, think tanks, academic researchers, and Ukrainian entities
October 1, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers at Trend Micro reveal the details of a campaign carried out by the Russia-linked APT29 threat actor, leveraging malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration files.
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
November 28, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Alder Hey Childrens Hospital says it is investigating claims that its systems may have been breached and that patient records and other information was stolen, after the ransomware group INC Ransom adds Alder Hey to its leak site.
35 organizations worldwide
November 18, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware ]
The Akira ransomware-as-a-service gang publishes a record number (35) of new victims to its darknet leak site in a single day.
Manufacturing industry in Pakistan
November 16, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, manufacturing ]
Researchers at Cyble discover a campaign linked to the known APT group DONOT, targeting the manufacturing industry that supports the countrys maritime and defense sectors.
CyberHaven
December 24, 2024
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Data-loss prevention startup Cyberhaven says threat actors published a malicious update to its Chrome extension that was capable of stealing customer passwords and session tokens.
Undisclosed Malaysian educational institution
December 19, 2024
•[ financial, malware, education ]
Researchers from Trend Micro discover a Python-Based NodeStealer version targeting Facebook Ads Manager.
Fondo Genesis (MetLife)
December 31, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
The ransomware group RansomHub claims responsibility for a breach of MetLife's operations in Latin America. MetLife denies the allegations, acknowledging a separate cyber incident involving Fondo Genesis, a subsidiary operating solely in Ecuador. Claims to have exfiltrated 1TB of data.
Military personnel in Ukraine
December 18, 2024
•[ social, malware, government ]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) discloses that a threat actor tracked as UAC-0125 is leveraging Cloudflare Workers to trick military personnel in the country into downloading malware disguised as Army+, a mobile app that was introduced by the Ministry of Defence back in August 2024 in an effort to make the armed forces go paperless.
Crypto Users
February 1, 2024
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
The threat actors behind the 2022 LastPass breach were able to steal an estimated $5.36 million in crypto assets from over 40 wallet addresses. The wave of attacks is said to have originated from the 2022 incident in the password manager service LastPass.
Two individuals in Serbia
December 15, 2024
•[ hack, malware ]
A Serbian journalist and an activist have their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool maker Cellebrite.
Multiple Organizations in the Cryptocurrency Space
December 4, 2024
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
The legitimate Solana JavaScript SDK is temporarily compromised in a supply chain attack, backdoored with code to steal cryptocurrency keys and drain wallets.
