Sunweb Group
October 7, 2025
•[ data leak, phishing ]
Data breach exposed customer contact and booking details; agency warned customers to stay vigilant.
Western Sydney University
October 6, 2025
•[ phishing ]
Mass fraudulent emails to students/alumni claiming degree revocation; university says messages were not legitimate.
My ServiceOttawa
October 3, 2025
•[ data leak, phishing ]
On 3 October 2025 a My ServiceOttawa account using an automated bot exploited a bug in the service request lookup tool, allowing it to pull details of other residents service requests when a valid request number was supplied. The City of Ottawa says the breach was limited to email and postal addresses tied to about 2,454 service requests and did not include financial information, passwords or other sensitive data. The city immediately blocked the bot, patched the application, identified all potentially affected records and began notifying impacted residents with advice on spotting phishing or misuse of their contact details.
BNB Chain
October 1, 2025
•[ phishing ]
BNB Chains X account was hijacked and used to post phishing links; control was restored and malicious posts removed; no data theft reported.
WhatsApp users in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
October 1, 2025
•[ malware, phishing, data leak ]
Several WhatsApp users in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh had their Android phones compromised after downloading a fake wedding invitation via WhatsApp. The malware granted remote access, exposing personal messages, photos, and financial app data. Victims filed complaints with the Bijnor Cyber Crime Police Station; authorities believe multiple individuals across the district were affected.
Anne Helen Petersen's Substack account
October 1, 2025
•[ phishing, account takeover, impersonation ]
Former Buzzfeed journalist Anne Helen Petersen received a phishing email that imitated a security alert from Substack, warning that her ability to send emails would be frozen unless she verified her account. After she responded, attackers captured her credentials and gained unauthorized access to her Culture Study Substack newsletter and podcast account, which has more than 25,000 followers. The intruders changed the newsletters name to impersonate cryptocurrency wallet company Trezor and added thousands of new email addresses to the mailing list, hijacking her distribution channel to push a crypto-related scam through her audience.
Undisclosed Uzbekistan organization
October 1, 2025
•[ nation-state, phishing, malware ]
A nation-state actor known as Bloody Wolf expanded operations to Uzbekistan using geofenced spearphishing delivering malicious JAR loaders that installed NetSupport RAT for persistent access; no data theft was reported.
Templeton Properties (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
September 20, 2025
•[ social, phishing ]
An employee at Templeton Properties clicked a phishing email link impersonating an invoice, triggering suspicious activity on company computers. The IT administrator confirmed it was a fraudulent email and contained malicious content. No confirmed data theft was reported.
Undisclosed Hungarian Diplomatic Entities
September 1, 2025
•[ cyber-espionage, phishing, malware ]
China-linked UNC6384 conducted a cyber-espionage campaign beginning Sept 2025 against Hungarian diplomatic entities using EU/NATO-themed phishing emails with malicious .LNK attachments exploiting ZDI-CAN-25373 to deploy PlugX via DLL side-loading. Arctic Wolf Labs attributed the activity to UNC6384.
Undisclosed Indian government or infrastructure organisation(s)
September 1, 2025
•[ espionage, malware, credential theft ]
Pakistan-linked APT36 used themed lures and HTML/shortcut droppers to deliver cross-platform implants on Windows and BOSS Linux systems used by Indian government organizations, enabling credential theft, persistence and covert collection. Activity is espionage-oriented with no reported service outage.
Undisclosed Belgian Diplomatic Entities
September 1, 2025
•[ cyber-espionage, phishing, malware ]
China-linked UNC6384 conducted a cyber-espionage campaign beginning Sept 2025 against Belgian diplomatic entities using EU/NATO-themed phishing emails with malicious .LNK attachments exploiting ZDI-CAN-25373 to deploy PlugX via DLL side-loading. Arctic Wolf Labs attributed the activity to UNC6384.
Weymouth and Kingston Maurward College (Dorset College group)
August 15, 2025
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing incident at Dorset Colleges Weymouth and Kingston Maurward campus resulted in the compromise of multiple staff email accounts around August 15, 2025. Spam was sent from affected accounts. Exposure may have included contact details of prior email correspondents. The breach was contained swiftly with minimal impact. Reported to the ICO.
300+ macOS end users worldwide
August 15, 2025
•[ hack, malware, phishing ]
Over 300 Macs were infected by the Shamos malware delivered via fake Apple Support websites shown in Google Search results. The malware bypassed macOS Gatekeeper and XProtect to steal passwords, personal notes, and cryptocurrency wallet data.
Pornhub
August 11, 2025
•[ extortion, phishing, data leak ]
Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claimed theft of a 94GB dataset containing about 201 million records tied to Pornhub Premium user activity and launched an extortion campaign demanding payment in Bitcoin. Reporting linked the compromise to third-party analytics provider Mixpanel, where access allegedly began on November 8, 2025 after a smishing attack harvested employee login credentials. Samples reviewed by journalists reportedly included email addresses, approximate location (city/country), video titles and URLs, search keywords, and timestamps for watches/downloads. Pornhub stated its internal systems were not directly hacked and that sensitive items such as passwords and credit card details remained secure, while Mixpanel later suggested some access may have involved a legitimate employee account associated with Pornhubs parent company, Aylo.
Npm ecosystem
August 9, 2025
•[ phishing, malware, hack ]
Phished npm maintainer account used to publish trojanized releases of widely used packages; malicious code attempted crypto address swapping. Packages were pulled within ~2 hours, yet reached ~10% of cloud environments; profits remained under $1,000; no confirmed data theft or sustained outages.
Town of Bar Harbor, Maine
July 30, 2025
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Bar Harbor discovered on July 30, 2025 that four municipal email accounts were compromised and used to send phishing messages. Town offices were closed July 31Aug 1 while systems were secured. CrowdStrike and FBI confirmed no ransomware, encryption, malware, financial theft, or data exfiltration.
Toys “R” Us Canada
July 30, 2025
•[ data leak, phishing ]
Company confirmed a threat actor copied records from its customer database and later leaked them on the dark web; investigation verified the datas authenticity and regulators were notified. No payment credentials were exposed; customers warned about phishing.
Pi-hole (donations site)
July 28, 2025
•[ phishing, misconfiguration, technology ]
Donor names/emails shown in page source due to GiveWP plugin flaw; donors began reporting phishing on July 28; Pi-hole post-mortem confirms exposure and no payment data affected.
Cisco.com Registered Users
July 24, 2025
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A voice phishing (vishing) call tricked a Cisco representative into granting access to a third-party CRM system on July 24, 2025. Attackers exfiltrated basic profile information of Cisco.com users (names, emails, phones, addresses, account metadata). No passwords or sensitive data affected; actor remains unknown. Breach discovered by August 5, 2025.
North St. Paul Police Department
July 23, 2025
•[ phishing, government, hack ]
A phishing email compromised a single business email account in the North St. Paul Police Department around July 23 2025. The incident was swiftly contained with no service disruption and no confirmed data exfiltration, though data compromise is being investigated. Disclosed August 5 2025.
