Coweta County
August 24, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Coweta County restores most of its computer servers, nearly two weeks after hackers demanded $341,000 in bitcoins.
Schneider Electric
August 24, 2018
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Schneider Electric finds a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products.
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.
Cheddar Scratch Kitchen
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Restaurants in 23 states belonging to Cheddar Scratch Kitchen are affected by a cyberattack that exposed payment card information. The amount of impacted card details is estimated to be 567,000 and were stolen between November 3, 2017, and January 2, 2018.
Eastern Maine Community College
August 17, 2018
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor warns of a possible data breach that could have exposed the personal information of current and former staff and students. School officials notify 42,000 current and former students and employees that certain computers were recently infected with malware and may have been hacked.
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.
PGA of America
August 7, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware ]
PGA of America's computers are locked by a ransomware.
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.)
August 3, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
A computer virus, later reported to be a variant of WannaCry, halts several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. factories, the sole maker of the iPhone's main processor.
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.
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.
Hong Kong's Department of Health
August 1, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Three computers at the Hong Kong Department of Health are hit by ransomware.
Yahya Assiri
August 1, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted Yahya Assiri, a critic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 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.
Borough of Matanuska-Susitna
July 31, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Borough of Matanuska-Susitna is hit by CryptoLocker. The attack took place on July 24 but was maybe dormant since May. The IT systems are not operational with some users starting to use typewriters.
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.
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.
Blue Springs Family Care
July 26, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Healthcare provider Blue Springs Family Care discloses a ransomware attack resulting from an authorized access that may have also compromised 44,979 patients records.
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.
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.
