Cockrell Hill Police
January 26, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Police in Cockrell Hill, Texas admits in a press release to have lost years worth of evidence after the department's server was infected with ransomware.
Unnamed TV station in the UK
January 26, 2017
•[ espionage, malware ]
SecureWorks reveals that APT28 was able to infiltrate an unnamed TV station in the UK and stay undetected for 12 months starting from July 2015.
Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center
January 21, 2017
•[ leak, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a security breach that could put the personal information of up to 4,611 clients of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center in jeopardy.
Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
St. Louis Public Library
January 20, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
St. Louis Public Library is hit by a ransomware attack. Attackers demand $35,000 worth in Bitcoin.
POPEYES
January 18, 2017
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
CCC Restaurant Enterprises, LLC, doing business as POPEYES, announce that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of some customers who used debit or credit cards at 10 Restaurant locations between May 5, 2016 and August 18, 2016.
Mario Monti
January 11, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, finance ]
Italian siblings Giulio and Francesca Maria Occhionero are arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian politicians, businessmen and Masons using a variant of the malware family EyePyramid. Among the victims are the grand master of Italy's biggest lodge, the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and former Italian prime ministers, Matteo Renzi and Mario Monti.
Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana
January 11, 2017
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Dark Overlord hacks the computers of an Indiana-based cancer agency and asks for a large payment of 50 Bitcoin ($44,800) not to release the data. Initially the attack seemed to have been caused by ransomware.
Kanawha County Schools
January 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Kanawha County Schools tells that their internal documents have been restored after a ransomware attack.
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC)
January 10, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) is forced to pay $28,000 in bitcoin after cybercriminals successfully infected its computer networks, email systems and voicemail lines with ransomware.
Unknown Organization
January 10, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Susan M. Hughes Center notifies of a ransomware incident affecting 11,400 patients.
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.
