Boone County School District
December 19, 2024
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Personal data from current and former students in Boone County School District are compromised in a phishing scheme.
"Tony" (undisclosed crypto investor)
December 18, 2024
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
A scammer impersonating Google manages to phish 45 bitcoins approximately $4,725,000 at todays value from Tony, a 42-year-old professional from northern California.
Individuals in South Korea
December 11, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
A South Korean law enforcement operation, dubbed Operation Midas, and carried out by the Korean Financial Security Institute (K-FSI), takes down a large-scale fraud network that extorted $6.3m from victims with fake online trading platforms.
Ukrainian Defense Companies and Security and Defense Forces
December 7, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) discover a series of phishing emails targeting Ukrainian defense companies and security and defense forces with a fake NATO standards conference. Some recipients opened the phishing emails execiting the malicious RAR attachments.
Kenton County School District
December 20, 2024
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Personal data from current and former students in Kenton County School District are compromised in a phishing scheme.
City of Clark Fork
November 15, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The City of Clark Fork is scammed out of half a million dollars by a man posing as its construction contractor.
Illinois Department Of Human Services
April 25, 2024
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The Illinois Department Of Human Services reveals that a phishing attack affected more than 1.1M public assistance clients.
Adam Griffin
May 6, 2024
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Adam Griffin, a crypto investor is robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies after a scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click yes to a Google prompt on his mobile device.
EigenLayer
October 4, 2024
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
EigenLayer team says it is investigating an unapproved selling activity of about 1.6 million of EigenLayers EIGEN tokens, worth about $5.7 million. In a subsequent update the company reveals that the unapproved token-selling incident was due to a hack, after a malicious attacker compromised an email thread involving an investors token transfer into custody.
Senator Ben Cardin
September 26, 2024
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
An advanced deepfake operation targets Sen. Ben Cardin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is involved in a Zoom conversation with a fake Dymtro Kuleba, the former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Equiniti Trust Company, formerly known as American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
September 19, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
Equiniti Trust Company agrees to pay $850K after an unknown threat actor, pretending to be an employee of a U.S.-based public issuer client of American Stock Transfer, instructed the Company to issue millions of new shares, liquidate those shares, and send the proceeds to an bank in Hong Kong, leading to a loss of roughly $4.78 million.
Atrium Health
April 29, 2024
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Atrium Health sends notifications to patients who may have been impacted by a malicious email sent to employees in April, through which an unauthorized third party gained access to a group of employees emails.
Fur Affinity
August 22, 2024
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Fur Affinity, a popular social networking website for the furry community, is compromised, after threat actors successfully gained control of the websites domain, redirecting users to phishing sites, crypto scams and other malicious content.
Locata
July 29, 2024
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A cyber attack on software company Locata spreads across councils across Greater Manchester, leaving thousands of residents vulnerable to a phishing scam.
University of Chicago Medical Center
January 30, 2024
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
The University of Chicago Medical Center reveals that a phishing incident involving the emails of workers at University of Chicago Medical Center may have exposed the personal information of about 10,300 people.
Unnamed Lincoln Project vendor
February 1, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The anti-Donald Trump super PAC Lincoln Project discloses to have lost $35,000 to a business email compromise (BEC) scam.
Town of Arlington
June 5, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The town of Arlington discloses that it had lost nearly $446,000 in a monthslong business email compromise (BEC) scam.
Large U.S. car maker
November 1, 2022
•[ financial, phishing, manufacturing ]
Researchers from Blackberry reveal that the financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor.
Official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter)
June 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
The official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter), with over 211,000 followers, is hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers to impersonate Roaring Kitty, the handle used by notorious meme stock trader Keith Gill.
Undisclosed crypto investor
May 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
An individual loses around $71 million worth of bitcoin in what appears to be an address poisoning attack. A week later the author of the attack returns the stolen bounty.
