IT security: Cyber attacks on the public sector
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Fake emails were sent.
Perugia is the capital of the Umbria region with about 170,000 inhabitants (Source: Wikipedia).
This caused the IT of 6 municipalities to fail.
This caused IT outages in several city administrations.
The administration's IT service provider fell victim to a ransomware attack.
The administration's IT service provider fell victim to a ransomware attack.
The city's IT service provider fell victim to a ransomware attack.
This caused outages in several municipal administrations and businesses in the area.
The company works for several municipalities.
40,000 data records were leaked and offered in the Darknet.
The Workington mayor's private email account was hacked, used to solicit money from other members of the city council.
Affected is the IACP MESSINA - Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari
The website of the Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária was hacked, demonstrating Argentine flags, presumably motivated by the controverse intervention in the Brazil-Argentina soccer match.
Affected is the City of Stonnington, IT systems were shut down.
The small town of Peterborough in the northeast of the USA has about 6300 inhabitants. In July and August, it was defrauded of a total of $2.3 million. According to reports, mails with false identities were used to divert upcoming payments to the school district and two contractors to other accounts.
Affected are the personnel files of the employees.
The EasyGov platform allows companies to complete government processes electronically. In August, about 130,000 names of companies that had applied for Covid 19 credit were tapped.
The point of attack is said to have been the Hyper-V software. Website and systems are down.
The Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional is part of the Ministry of Economy and has its headquarters in Brasilia.
Personal data of the applicants was stolen.
The Lazio region is located in central Italy and includes the city of Rome. With the hacker attack, the Corona vaccination portal is also down. The attack took place via the PC of an employee of an IT company belonging to the region. Later, a leading Italian newspaper wrote that the attack on the region was related to an attack on an external IT service provider, which was denied by the external service provider.
This also made the web pages for Corona tests unavailable.
The website was the target of an attack that destroyed the website's database.
The Hessian town of Geisenheim is located on the Rhine, about 20 km southwest of Wiesbaden, and has about 11,000 inhabitants. According to initial assessments, the administration will be offline for at least 3 weeks, and 2 or 3 months are expected for the return to normal.
The security service provider Proofpoint has analyzed a targeted attack on experts, professors and journalists with a focus on the Middle East. Access data to various online services was to be tapped via the compromised website of a well-known institute of the University of London. The attack is attributed to Iran.
Ransomware encrypted the data, a ransom of millions was demanded.
The county has declared a disaster situation. The work of the administration is severely restricted at all locations.
Several systems were shut down following a cyberattack. The incident occurred a few days before the start of school term 3.
The attackers obtain bank account data from private individuals and companies.
The city of Villepinte is located in the Île-de-France region, in the northeast of Paris and has about 37,000 inhabitants.
The Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold Synergie is an association of municipalities in the Moselle department in the Grand Est. The IT infrastructure was hit by ransomware, a ransom of $80,000 was demanded.
The Institut plánování a rozvoje hlavního města Prahy (Institute for Planning and Development of the Capital City of Prague, IPR Prague) is responsible for urban planning and operates, among other things, the city's geoportal.
The administration of the city of Liège, Belgium, population about 200,000, was hit by a cyberattack with ransomware. Numerous services are down.
The attacks are said to be coming from Russia.
The municipality of Rolle in the canton of Vaud is located on Lake Geneva, between Lausanne and Geneva, and has about 5400 inhabitants. The consequences of the attack were initially underestimated.
Malware was found, some systems were shut down for 3 days.
The library is located in the Klementinum in the center of Prague. The systems were shut down and the library remained closed to the public.
The website was shut down and thus numerous services were no longer available.
Oradea City Hall became a victim of ransomware.
The Belgian operator Belnet was the victim of a denial-of-service attack. As a result, political institutions, universities and research facilities were not accessible.
Documents were published on the darknet.
After a hacker attack, the systems were taken off the Internet, making services unavailable.
The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is located 78 miles north of Vancover and has about 12,000 inhabitants. It became the victim of a ransomware attack.
Because no ransom was paid, the attackers published confidential documents on the Darknet.
Fahrenzhausen is located about 25 km north of the city center of Munich and has about 5000 inhabitants.
Kranzberg is located about 30 km north of the city center of Munich and has about 4000 inhabitants.
The city of Kingman has a population of approximately 28,000. Only a few personal data were stolen as a result of the attack. By April, operations had been restored. The method of the intrusion could not be determined.
Through a vulnerability in file transfer software.
The city is located in the east of France between Dijon and Lyon in the department of Saône-et-Loire. It has about 45,000 inhabitants. In February 2021, the administration of the city and the Grand Chalon commune was hit by a cyber-attack, the damage amounts to about 500,000 EUR.
Payments to legitimate vendors were diverted to other accounts. More than $120,000 was recovered.
Through a vulnerability in file transfer software.
The administration of Angers, a city located in the west of France, has been hit by ransomware. 200 of the city's 3000 computers are believed to be infected. As a first response, 50 emergency workstations have been set up.
Clearfield County is located in Pennsylvania, in the northeastern United States.
The municipality of Hof van Twente is located in the east of the Netherlands and has about 35,000 inhabitants. In December 2020, it was hit by a cyberattack. The investigation reports on this are published on the city's website.
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