Town of Colonie
January 15, 2020
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Albany County town of Colonie is hit by a cyber-attack that takes the town's computer system and email offline.
Company in the medical tech sector
January 13, 2020
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Researchers from Guardicore reveal the details of an attack targeting a company in the medical tech sector via a malware hiding its modules in WAV audio files and spreading to vulnerable Windows 7 machines on the network via EternalBlue.
Panama-Buena Vista Union School
January 10, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Panama-Buena Vista Union School District is hit with a ransomware attack.
Boing Boing
January 10, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The popular Boing Boing blog is hacked by an unknown party who plants malicious code into the site's WordPress theme. Users visiting the site from desktop computers are redirected to a fake download page for an Adobe Flash update.
Website collecting donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires
January 10, 2020
•[ financial, malware, healthcare ]
Researchers from Malwarebytes discover that attackers compromised a website collecting donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires and injected ATMZOW, a malicious script that steals the payment information of the donors.
Bartlett Public Library District
January 9, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Bartlett Public Library District's computer systems recovers from a ransomware attack occurred on Saturday, November 30.
City of Dawson Creek
January 9, 2020
•[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
The City of Dawson Creek says its computer systems were hacked in an apparent ransomware attack.
btyDental
January 9, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
btyDental notifies patients after suffering a ransomware attack discovered on November 2019.
Albany International Airport
January 9, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware ]
Albany International Airport's staff announces that the New York airport's administrative servers were hit by Sodinokibi Ransomware following a cyberattack that took place over Christmas.
Enloe Medical Center
January 7, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Enloe Medical Center is hit by a ransomware attack that causes the hospital to reschedule some elective procedures.
Pittsburg Unified School District
January 6, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Students in the Pittsburg Unified School District of Pennsylvania are left without internet access as the result of a ransomware attack.
Hamden Schools
January 6, 2020
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Public schools in Hamden are taken down by a malware attack.
Saskatchewan's eHealth
January 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Hackers make through the first level of security for Saskatchewan's eHealth records system, locking the government out of some systems and asking for a ransom.
Office of Mark McGowan
January 3, 2020
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Using a new exploit named Aria-body, APT 30 attempted to compromise networks belonging to governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia. One of the group's targets is the office of Mark McGowan, Western Australia's premier. The hackers compromised a computer at the Indonesian embassy in Canberra and sent a malicious document to a staff member at McGowan's office from that machine.
Contra Costa County Library System
January 3, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Contra Costa County Library System is hit by ransomware
Native American Rehabilitation Association
January 3, 2020
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Native American Rehabilitation Association announces that it experienced an Emotet attack on November 4-5, 2019.
Nameless Malware
January 1, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In January 2021, NordLocker provided HIBP 1.1 million email addresses collected by nameless malware. The malware campaign ran between 2018 and 2020 and infected 3.25 million computers, stealing files, credentials and taking screenshots and photos using the computer's webcam. Read more in NordLocker's writeup about the Nameless malware that stole 1.2 TB of private data.
Landry's
December 31, 2019
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Restaurant chain Landry's discloses a security incident that involved the discovery of malware on the network of 63 restaurants. The malware was designed to collect payment card data from cards swiped at its bars and restaurants, and was active from March 13 to October 2019.
Travelex
December 31, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Travelex is forced to take down its website after a ransomware attack.
