Department of Agriculture
July 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The official website of Philippine Department of Agriculture (da.gov.ph) is infected with malicious code that promotes a gambling-related website.
Metro newspaper
July 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The United States website of the Metro newspaper (metro.us), which serves an estimated 1 million visitors every month, is compromised and abused to distribute malware.
Goodwill Industries
July 14, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Goodwill Industries is the latest victim of the PoS Breach spree. Stores on 21 states report traces of card frauds.
Penn State College of Medicine
July 10, 2014
•[ leak, malware, education ]
1176 Penn State College of Medicine alumni's Social Security numbers might have been compromised after malware was found on a university computer.
Office of Personnel Management
July 9, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The New York Times reports that in March, Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees (the Office of Personnel Management).
DailyMotion
July 3, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Symantec reveals that the popular video sharing Dailymotion was compromised to redirect users to the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit.
Cryptome
June 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
askmen
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
Synology NAS Boxes
June 13, 2014
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Dell SecureWorks reveals that unknown hackers were able to hijack Synology NAS Boxes for mining Dogecoin, reaping $620,000 in two months.
Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
April 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
About 55,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (vfw.org) may have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised after an unauthorized party gained access to a VFW web server using a remote access trojan.
LaCie
April 15, 2014
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
LaCie confirms in a statement that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website. Virtually everyone who shopped on LaCie's website in the last year is at risk.
Anonymous
April 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, espionage ]
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online.
Spec's
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
El Agave Restaurant
March 26, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Over 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen by hackers who installed malware on the point of sale system of El Agave Restaurant.
Rosenthal Wine Shop
March 21, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rosenthal Wine Shop notifies customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information.
Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
