Santiago Aguirre
May 20, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Santiago Aguirre, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
Rafael Cabrera
May 18, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Rafael Cabrera, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies
May 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies notifies 4,082 patients after discovering that malware had been injected into their system in November, 2015.
Daniel Lizarraga
May 18, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Daniel Lizarraga, a journalist working at Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity.
Alexandra Zapata
May 17, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Alexandra Zapata, an investigator at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
Tien Phong Bank
May 13, 2016
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
SWIFT confirms a new attack in which attackers managed to illegally transfer funds from a member bank by using its system. Further details, including the bank name are revealed two days after. The victim is the Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.
Sebastin Barragn
May 12, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Sebastin Barragn, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
Stephanie Brewer
May 11, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Stephanie Brewer, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
Mayfield Brain & Spine
May 9, 2016
•[ social, malware, healthcare ]
Mayfield Brain & Spine notifies its patients of a fake email containing malware sent to them. The incident affects a total of 23,341 patients.
PerezHilton
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
Bay Area Children's Association
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Bay Area Children's Association reports that an attacker compromised patient information after planting malware on the systems of its electronic medical record provider.
Union League Club
May 3, 2016
•[ financial, insider, malware ]
Union League Club says it is working with the FBI to investigate a security breach involving guests' credit card information. An employee accused to have installed malicious software is fired.
Unidentified Israeli Org
May 2, 2016
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto reveal the details of Infy, a new targeted attack campaign dating back nearly a decade and likely to have originated from Iran.
Maisto
April 29, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, is caught pushing ransomware.
The Pirate Bay
April 27, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
The Grand Sierra Resort
April 25, 2016
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.
Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL)
April 25, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) announces last week a cyber-attack that partially shut down some of its services following what looks like an unconfirmed ransomware incident.
Newark Police Department
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Newark Police Department is forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack.
The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
