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.
gumtree
March 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign, distributing the infamous Angler Exploit Kit, and targeting gumtree.com.au.
Norfolk General Hospital
March 21, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
THe website of the Norfolk General Hospital is hacked to spread malware to its visitors.
Unknown Organization
March 20, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The website of EC-Council, the professional organization that administers the Certified Ethical Hacker program, is compromised to redirect the visitors to an Angler Exploit Kit landing page, where the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware is injected.
Harry Styles
March 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
One Direction singer Harry Styles and his alleged girlfriend Kendall Jenner have their personal photos leaked online after iCloud account hack.
Rosen Hotels & Resorts
March 4, 2016
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
US chain Rosen Hotels & Resorts is the latest to confirm a malware-based breach of its payment processing systems. The breach covered an extended period between September 2, 2014 to February 18, 2016.
GIEI
March 1, 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 targets is a phone belonging to the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI). GIEI is investigating the 2014 Iguala Mass Disappearance and was targeted shortly after criticizing the Mexican government for interfering in the investigation.
Coast Central Credit Union
February 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
The website of Coast Central Credit Union, a financial institution that serves more than 60,000 customers, is hacked, allowing attackers to implant a backdoor.
Linux Mint
February 21, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2016, the website for the Linux distro known as Linux Mint was hacked and the ISO infected with a backdoor. The site also ran a phpBB forum which was subsequently put up for sale complete with almost 145k email addresses, passwords and other personal subscriber information.
Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
February 12, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The first example of a ransomware targeting a website: the website of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is replaced with instructions on how to pay off the extortionists: $150 ( 100) in Bitcoin.
Energobank
February 8, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Bloomberg reveals that hackers used malware to penetrate the defenses of Energobank, a Russian regional bank and move the ruble-dollar rate more than 15 percent in minutes, according to Group-IB, the Moscow-based cyber-security firm hired to investigate the attack,
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, education ]
A British judge has ruled against extraditing Christopher Taylor, a Wigan man who is alleged to have hacked hundreds of webcams around the globe, to the United States. Taylor was apprehended after it was discovered that he installed malware on a laptop at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
