Arizona Department of Administration
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Arizona officials investigate how and when several computers used by state legislators and their staffs became infected with malware.
University of Alberta
January 5, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The University of Alberta discloses the details of a malware attack, occurring late last year, that involved 300 computers and put over 3,000 students at risk.
Emory Brain Health Center
January 4, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Emory Healthcare is one of the victims of the MongoDB ransomware attacks and has its database, managed by a third-party and containing 90,000 records, encrypted.
Ukrainian Artillery Units
December 23, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Fancy Bear, the hacker group previously linked to the Russian Military Intelligence (GRU), is believed to have deployed malware on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units over the past two years.
Undisclosed Ukrainian banks
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
ESET reports that BlackEnergy, the same group who targeted Ukrainian utilities last December has been using the TeleBots malware against Ukrainian banks in the last month.
State Treasury Service of Ukraine
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine redirects the users to www.whoismrrobot.com. Also, the website of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine experiences a service disruption.
Eir Telecom
December 5, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Eir warns customers that 2000 of its modems have been compromised by the Mirai botnet.
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
December 2, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Eight Saudi institutions are hit by a destructive cyber attack allegedly generating from Iran, carried on using a new version of the infamous Shamoon Malware. Among the victims is the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank.
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Transportation
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
An Iranian threat actor used malware known as Shamoon 2.0 to compromise and destroy computers at the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia.
Deutsche Telekom
November 29, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers are knocked off the internet when their routers are hit by a malware attack launched through the Mirai Botnet exploiting a SOAP Remote Execution Vulnerability.
The Carleton University
November 29, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The computers of the Carleton University are paralyzed by a ransomware attack.
xHamster
November 28, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In November 2016, news broke that hackers were trading hundreds of thousands of xHamster porn account details. In total, the data contained almost 380k unique user records including email addresses, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
Ask
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown attacker hijacks the update mechanism employed by Ask Partner Network (APN) to download suspicious code onto unsuspecting users' PCs.
Mailchimp
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hackers compromise the Mailchimp database and manage to send out emails containing malicious links to subscribers of various different companies.
Casino Rama Resort
November 10, 2016
•[ hack, malware ]
Casino Rama Resort issues a warning to its customers and employees after a hacker claimed to have stolen over a decades' (from 2004 to 2016) worth of sensitive information from its computer networks " including payroll data and social insurance numbers.
National Health Service's Lincolnshire and Goole
October 30, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Citing a computer virus outbreak, a hospital system in the United Kingdom cancels all planned operations and diverts major trauma cases to neighboring facilities.
converse
October 28, 2016
•[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
Converse reveals that the company's Australian e-commerce site was intercepting payment details for website visitors that made purchases between Sept. 2 and Oct. 12 of this year.
Vera Bradley
October 13, 2016
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
American high-end fashion retailer Vera Bradley has revealed that hackers may have accessed customers' card data from payment processing systems at its retail stores this summer.
SWIFT
October 12, 2016
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
Symantec reveals that a second group of hackers are attempting to rob banks by targeting SWIFT users deploying the same methods that led to the Bangladesh Bank hacking heist. The tools used are linked to the Odinaff group, which since the beginning of the year, has targeted financial institutions worldwide.
