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.
EastIdahoNews.com
August 20, 2025
•[ social, malware, technology ]
Fake virus scanner pop-ups served via third-party ads disrupted user experienceno evidence of data theft or system compromise.
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.
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.
Chanel
July 25, 2025
•[ social, retail ]
Threat actors accessed Chanels Salesforce-hosted database at a third-party provider via social-engineering/OAuth tactics; data theft detected July 25, 2025; U.S. customer contact details exposed; no operational disruption reported.
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.
OutcomesOne
July 1, 2025
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
A phishing attack compromised a single employees email account for about one hour at OutcomesOne, a Florida-based professional services firm providing health IT and medication management support to insurers and pharmacies. Attackers accessed PHI stored in the organizations email application server, exposing data of roughly 149,000 individuals including names, demographics, provider, insurance, and medication information. No Social Security numbers or financial data were involved.
Microsoft Outlook / Office 365 Customers
June 1, 2025
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Threat actors abused Proofpoint and Intermedia email-link wrapping services to deliver phishing emails posing as Teams notifications and voicemails, leading to theft of Microsoft Outlook / Office 365 login credentials from global users. No encryption occurred; actor identity unknown.
Multiple diplomatic and international organizations (particpating in Gaza peace talks)
June 1, 2025
•[ espionage, social, phishing ]
Homeland Justice, an Iranian MOIS-linked group, compromised an Omani Embassy email account and used it to deliver spear-phishing attachments to diplomats and international mediators engaged in Gaza ceasefire negotiations. This was an espionage operation with no service disruption reported. ~72K+ malicious Word emails sent via spear-phishing from a compromised Omani Embassy in Paris account; targeted Egyptian officials, U.S. and Qatari mediators, and organizations such as UN, UNICEF, World Bank, and African Union during Gaza ceasefire talks
Farmers Insurance (via third-party vendor)
May 29, 2025
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Over 1.1 million customers impacted by breach via Salesforce-linked vendor breach. Exfiltration involved social engineering/vishing and malicious OAuth apps, with ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider providing access and exfiltration. Two years of identity protection offered.
Unnamed U.S. Banking Organization
May 9, 2025
•[ social, misconfiguration, finance ]
ReliaQuest links Scattered Spider to renewed activity against U.S. financial services, including a bank intrusion achieved via social engineering + Azure AD SSPR, followed by lateral movement (Citrix/VPN), ESXi compromise, and cloud data access attempts (Snowflake/AWS).
KazMunaiGas
May 5, 2025
•[ social, hack, phishing ]
A spear-phishing campaign disguised as internal HR communications delivered multi-stage malware to KMG employees. Attackers used a compromised business email, LNK downloader, PowerShell (DOWNSHELL), and DLL implant to establish reverse shell access. KMG later labeled it a phishing test.
Multiple devices at undisclosed telecommunications firm(s)
May 1, 2025
•[ social, hack, phishing ]
UNC1549 (Subtle Snail) compromised multiple devices at an undisclosed telecommunications firm in Canada using LinkedIn job-lures and the MINIBIKE backdoor; Azure-hosted C2 infrastructure was observed. No confirmed data exfiltration volumes or operational disruption reported.
Multiple devices at undisclosed telecommunications firm(s)
May 1, 2025
•[ social, espionage, phishing ]
UNC1549 (Subtle Snail) compromised multiple devices at an undisclosed telecommunications firm in France using LinkedIn job-lures and the MINIBIKE backdoor; Azure-hosted C2 infrastructure was observed. No confirmed data exfiltration volumes or operational disruption reported.
Multiple devices at undisclosed telecommunications firm(s)
May 1, 2025
•[ social, hack, malware ]
UNC1549 (Subtle Snail) compromised multiple devices at an undisclosed telecommunications firm in United Arab Emirates using LinkedIn job-lures and the MINIBIKE backdoor; Azure-hosted C2 infrastructure was observed. No confirmed data exfiltration volumes or operational disruption reported.
Multiple devices at undisclosed telecommunications firm(s)
May 1, 2025
•[ social, hack, malware ]
UNC1549 (Subtle Snail) compromised multiple devices at an undisclosed telecommunications firm in United Kingdom using LinkedIn job-lures and the MINIBIKE backdoor; Azure-hosted C2 infrastructure was observed. No confirmed data exfiltration volumes or operational disruption reported.
Multiple devices at undisclosed telecommunications firm(s)
May 1, 2025
•[ hack, social, malware ]
UNC1549 (Subtle Snail) compromised multiple devices at an undisclosed telecommunications firm in United States of America using LinkedIn job-lures and the MINIBIKE backdoor; Azure-hosted C2 infrastructure was observed. No confirmed data exfiltration volumes or operational disruption reported.
Government of Canada
March 8, 2025
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
A software-update vulnerability at MFA provider 2Keys allowed access to contact data for federal service users (CRA/ESDC phone numbers; CBSA emails) authenticating between Aug 315, 2025; attacker sent phishing SMS to some numbers; government deems no further sensitive data accessed.
Individual
January 27, 2025
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Police began investigating when a 90-year-old man told authorities he gave $49,900 to a courier purportedly acting on behalf of PayPal. Victim was deceived via fake PayPal email & link leading to remote access of computer/password theft
~100 UTEP Students
January 22, 2025
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is urging students to remain vigilant following a phishing attack that compromised several accounts.
