Mahatma Gandhi Mission Hospital
July 15, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Mahatma Gandhi Mission Hospital in Mumbai is hit by a ransomware attack.
Chlorine distillation plant in Ukraine
July 11, 2018
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) reveals it stopped a cyber-attack with the VPNFilter malware on a chlorine distillation plant in the village of Aulska, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The SBU accuses Russia of operating the malware and launching the attack.
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.
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.
GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux distribution
June 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown hacker temporarily takes control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embed malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. The malicious code fails to trigger properly and users' remain safe.
Middletown school district
June 28, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Middletown School District is hit by a ransomware.
Liberty Life
June 16, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Liberty Life's IT system are attacked by unknown hackers, who reportedly obtain sensitive data about some of the insurer's top clients and ask for a ransom.
Mongolian government data center
June 13, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor has compromised a government data center in Mongolia. Kaspersky Lab assesses that the threat actor used its access to compromise websites that they will use in subsequent watering-hole attacks.
Syscoin
June 13, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Malicious actors replace the legitimate Windows installer for Syscoin's cryptocurrency with a version containing malware, which was available on the company's Github page for several days.
South Korean Think Tank
June 11, 2018
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group planted an ActiveX zero-day exploit on the website of a South Korean think tank focused on national security.
RISE Wisconsin
June 7, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
RISE Wisconsin (formerly Community Partnerships and Center for Families) notifies its participants of a ransomware attack occurred on April 8, 2018.
Estonian Citizens (via Estonian Cybercrime Bureau)
June 7, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
In June 2018, the Cybercrime Bureau of the Estonian Central Criminal Police contacted HIBP and asked for assistance in making a data set of 655k email addresses searchable. The Estonian police suspected the email addresses and passwords they obtained were being used to access mailboxes, cryptocurrency exchanges, cloud service accounts and other similar online assets. They've requested that individuals who find themselves in the data set and also identify that cryptocurrency has been stolen contact them at cybercrime@politsei.ee.
Several Australian citizens
June 2, 2018
•[ social, malware ]
Several Australian citizens are the victims of a tech support scam, through which the attackers are able to take over their webcams and upload videos to YouTube.
The Rhode Island Department of Human Services
June 1, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Rhode Island officials say several state agencies are targeted by malware. The list of victims include: the Department of Children, Youth and Families, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Behavioral Healthcare.
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology
May 24, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology notifies 6,546 patients and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a ransomware incident that occurred in March.
Bombas
May 21, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Bombas notifies consumers of breach going back to 2015 when malware in the code of the e-commerce platform was identified and removed on February 9, 2015.
Allied Physicians
May 20, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Allied Physicians reports it was hit with a SamSam ransomware attack earlier this month (May 17).
blackphoenixalchemylab
May 17, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
blackphoenixalchemylab.com discovers malware inserted into the portion of the checkout page between May 1 and May 16.
LifeBridge Health
May 16, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
LifeBridge Health and LifeBridge Potomac Professionals notify patients about a malware incident that occurred back in March 18, 2018. The number of affected patients could be 500,000.
Family Planning NSW
May 14, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Family Planning NSW tells customers their personal information may have been compromised after the not-for-profit fell victim to a ransomware attack. Around 8,000 users might be affected.
