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1. Target Attack
Date Author Target Description Attack
Category Category
A severe DDoS attack lasting since more than one week
brings down Demonoid, one of the most famous BitTorrent
Aug 1 ? th DDoS Torrent Tracker Cyber Crime
trackers. The attack started on July the 27 , and apparently
1
it is still in place.
The first Australian Website hacked for this month by
#DoktorBass for #OpAustralia. The target is
Aug 1 SQLi Dating Cyber Crime
gclounge.com.au, a dating site, and the records leaked are
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approximately 500.
In name of #OpGreenRights, the Anonymous dump some
Industry:
Aug 1 portion of a database which belongs to Siemens. Apparently SQLi Cyber Crime
3 Technology
the dump does not contain sensitive information.
A hacker called JM511 hacks UAM (uam.mx), Universidad
Aug 1 Autónoma Metropolitana and dumps 213 email addresses SQLi Education Cyber Crime
4
with 18 names, user names and passwords.
A newly formed hacker collective called L0lz Security
(L0lzSec) claims to have gained access to the databases of
Pearl.fr, a French e-commerce website that sells a wide
Aug 2 SQLi E-Commerce Cyber Crime
variety of products. The hackers have allegedly obtained
729,000 accounts, along with over 1 million bank
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transaction details.
A computer security breach at the Environmental Protection
Agency exposes the Social Security numbers and banking
Aug 2 ? Unknown Government Cyber Crime
information of nearly 8,000 people, most of them current
6
employees, the EPA confirmed.
Another Australian based website breached with 900
Organization:
Aug 2 accounts leaked. The website belongs to the Australian SQLi Hacktivism
7 Trade
Fishing trade association (afta.net.au).
The Facebook pages of San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs,
Rogue New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, San Diego
Account
Aug 2 MLB Padres, Miami Marlins, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels Sport Cyber Crime
Employee Hijacking
of Anaheim, and Chicago White Sox are taken over by an
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unknown hacker, posting fake news.
Thomson Reuters confirms the Reuters News blogging
platform was hacked and that a false interview with a Syrian
rebel leader was posted. The Reuters blogging website has Wordpress
Aug 3 News Hacktivism
been taken down to fix the problem. Although no hacker Vulnerability
collective has taken credit for the breach, the main suspect
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in this case is the Syrian Electronic Army.
Mat Honan’s entire digital life is destroyed in the space of
one hour by two hackers (Phobia and Clan VV3). First his
Phobia Google account is taken over, then deleted. Next his Twitter
And account is compromised, and used as a platform to Social
Aug 3 News Cyber Crime
broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of Engineering
all, his AppleID account is broken into, and hackers used it
to remotely erase all of the data on his iPhone, iPad, and
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MacBook.

2. After the Reuters blogging platform, the ReutersTech
Twitter account is hacked on Sunday. The two events
appear to be related; in both cases, fake news was posted in Account
Aug 4 News Hacktivism
relation to the currently ongoing Syrian Civil War. The Hijacking
ReutersTech account was hijacked and renamed to
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ReutersME (ME stands for Middle East).
Gizmodo's Twitter account is hacked through former
Social
Aug 4 employee Mat Honan’s Twitter account, which has been News Cyber Crime
12 Engineering
hacked first.
JM511 hacks nnottscamra.co.uk, (the website dedicated to
the campaign for Real Ale) and dumps 135 records Organization:
Aug 4 SQLi Cyber Crime
containing usernames. Email addresses and phone Other
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numbers.
In name of Operation India, the personal website of Kapil
Sibal (kapilsibalmp.com), India’s Minister of Human
Resource Development and Minister of Communications
Organization:
Aug 6 and Information Technology, is breached by Anonymous, Unknown Hacktivism
Political
who publish a number of screenshots on the social media
website Facebook to demonstrate that they gained access
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to the site’s backend.
PBBans, the community of server admins dedicated to fight
Aug 6 ? cheaters is the target of a massive distributed denial-of- DDoS Online Services Cyber Crime
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service.
Anonymous hacks the Indiana Lake City Police Association
Law
Aug 6 (lakecountysheriff.com) and dumps 152 records with Emails SQLi Hacktivism
16 Enforcement
and Street Addresses.
The online activist group “Anonymous” shuts down three
government websites in retaliation for last week’s Organization:
DDoS Hacktivism
government shutdown of the popular Ukrainian torrent Copyright
tracker Demonoid where users share pirated videos. List of
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targets include: Organization:
Aug 7 DDoS Hacktivism
 Ukrainian Anti-Piracy Association (apo.kiev.ua); Copyright
 Ukrainian Agency for Copyright and Related Rights
(uacrr.kiev.ua);
 The National Television and Radio Broadcasting DDoS News Hacktivism
Council of Ukraine (nrada.gov.ua)
WikiLeaks is under a sustained large scale DDoS attacks
Organization:
Aug 7 since August 3. The attack is claimed by a group called DDoS Hacktivism
18 Activism
@AntiLeaks.
Haines City's government website (ci.haines-city.fl.us) is
AYYILDIZIIM hacked and taken down. A group calling itself AYYILDIZIIM-
Aug 7 -Gen~Reis Unknown Government Cyber Crime
Gen~Reis claims the credit for the hacking that redirected
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visitors to its website, which a Turkish gaming site.
On the wake of the attack against Wikileaks, also
Organization:
Aug 8 ? cabledrum.net, the search engine for cablegate files is the DDoS Hacktivism
20 Activism
target of a sustained DDoS attack.
Another attack in the name of #OpAustralia. In this round
@_ignit3 the target is the Australian Institute of Business Brokers
from website (aibb.org.au), that is hacked and has a leak of data Organization:
Aug 8 SQLi Hacktivism
posted online. The leak contains usernames and encrypted Industry
passwords of over 250 people from the websites
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database. In any case AIBB denies the claim.
An Arab hacking group called "Remember Emad" claims to
have taken control of an Israeli server belonging to
Remember Cyber
Aug 8 Emad
WebGate, an Israeli ISP. The group published lists of Unknown ISP
Warfare
passwords for Facebook pages, credit card numbers and
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email addresses belonging to Israelis.
Operation Australia continues, and as part of the operation
hackers take down with a DDoS attack two important high Law
DDoS Hacktivism
profile sites:
24 Enforcement
Aug 8  Department Of Defense Intelligence and Security:
(dsd.gov.au); Law
 Australian Security Intelligence Organisation DDoS Hacktivism
Enforcement
(asio.gov.au).

3. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab release the details on
Gauss, a dangerous banking malware which is believed to
be state-sponsored, and has been deployed in August-
Cyber
Aug 9 ? September 2011. It is derived from the Stuxnet Platform APT Finance
Espionage
and is capable of stealing sensitive information from
infected Windows computers. List of targets include:
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Lebanon, Israel, Palestinian Authority, etc.
Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of both World of
Warcraft and the Diablo series of games, says that its
internal security network had been breached. The target is
Battle.net, the company's proprietary online gaming service
for connecting players in its games. The company said that
email addresses and other information for all Battle.net
Aug 9 ? ? Online Gaming Cyber Crime
players outside China were taken, along with scrambled
passwords. While Blizzard said it would be very challenging
for the hackers to actually access any accounts or obtain
financial information, the company still recommended that
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its members change their passwords just to be safe.
Millions of users could potentially be affected
Two Nepalese government websites, the National
Information Technology Center (NITC) and the Office of the
Prime Minister and Council Minister (nitc.gov.np and
opmcm.gov.np respectively), have been compromised and Cyber
Aug 9 ? RAT Government
injected with malicious code. The aim of this injection is to Espionage
install, through successfully exploiting a Java weakness, a
backdoor that is also dubbed "Zegost" on the systems of
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visitors to these websites.
OpDemonoid continues. The list of the targets increases and DDoS Military Hacktivism
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involves:
 The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (mil.gov.ua); DDoS Government Hacktivism
 The Vinnitsa region (dai.vn.ua);
Aug 9 DDoS Government Hacktivism
 The Cabinet of Ministers;
 The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine DDoS Government Hacktivism
(fisu.gov.ua),
 The Svalyava district (svalyava-vlada.gov.ua). DDoS Government Hacktivism
Another example of hackers targeting road signs: Hackers
Industry:
Aug 9 ? reprogrammed a computerized road sign in Utah and made Unknown Cyber Crime
29 Transportation
it flash a homophobic phrase: “GOD HATES GAYS.”
The hacker known as Hitcher hacks the HP Training Center
Industry:
Aug 12 Hitcher (hptrainingcenter.com) and defaces it in name of Defacement Hacktivism
30 Technology
OpFreePalestine.
Another torrent site, scanbits.org, has fallen victim to
hackers who have obtained access to its database and
Aug 13 ? grabbed a copy of it totaling over 300mb. Along with the SQLi Torrent Tracker Cyber Crime
dump 9000+ user accounts are dumped with full account
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information, emails, encrypted passwords and more.
The National Council of Investigation and Security
Law
Aug 13 V0dka (nciss.org) is hacked by v0dka, who defaces the website and SQLi Cyber Crime
32 Enforcement
dumps 253 email accounts with their full names.
Anonymous Hackers team up with a collective known as The
Elite Society and a hacker called @DramaSett3r and breach Defacement Government Hacktivism
several government websites in Uganda. Targets include:
 The Prime Minister Website (opm.go.ug); Organization:
Defacement Hacktivism
 Uganda law society (uls.or.ug); Law
Aug 14
 Ugandan National TV (nTV.co.ug)
 The country’s Justice Law and Order Society Defacement Government Hacktivism
(jlos.go.ug)
The sites are defaced in support of Ugandan Lesbian, Gay, Defacement Government Hacktivism
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Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights.
The popular Russian BitTorrent website RUTracker.org is
Aug 14 ? 34 Unknown Torrent Tracker Cyber Crime
breached and defaced by an unknown group of hackers.

4. Trusteer announces to have discovered a sophisticated Man
Major in the Browser (MitB) enterprise attack targeting VPN users
Industry:
Aug 14 ? International at a major international airport hub. Using the Citadel MitB Cyber Crime
Transportation
Airport Trojan, criminals target employees to steal their credentials
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for accessing internal airport applications.
AT&T is the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attack
aimed at its DNS (Domain Name System) infrastructure and
Aug 15 ? DDoS TELCO Cyber Crime
capable to disrupt data traffic for some of the company's
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customers.
For the second time in two weeks, the blogging platform of
the Reuters News website is hacked and a false posting
Aug 15 ? Unknown News Cyber Crime
saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal
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had died is illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog.
The Saudi Oil Company Saudi Aramco is the victim of a
sophisticated Cyber Attack. The company declares that
“production has not been affected” and even if the virus
affected some computers, it did not penetrate key Shamoon Cyber
Aug 15 ? Industry: Oil
components of the network, even if the impacts seem Malware Espionage
38
different. Few hours later, more detail appear about
Shamoon, what appears to be the latest huge-scale cyber
39
attack in Middle East.
1 http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-to-suffer-prolonged-downtime-after-ddos-attack-120727/
2 http://datalossdb.org/incidents/7202-506-email-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
3 http://ozdc.net/archives.php?aid=2870
4 http://datalossdb.org/incidents/7182-213-email-addresses-with-18-names-user-names-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
5 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pearl-fr-Hacked-by-L0lzSec-700-000-Accounts-Possibly-Compromised-284722.shtml
6 http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/08/02/epa-security-breach-exposes-personal.html
7 http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/08/02/australian-fishing-trade-association-afta-hacked-900-accounts-leaked-by-
doktorbass/
8 http://deadspin.com/5931360/new-york-yankees-facebook-page-announces-derek-jeter-to-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-sex-
change
9 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/08/reuters-blogs-hacked-fake-story-about-syrian-rebels/55394/#
10 www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
11 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57486971-93/reuters-twitter-account-hijacked-fake-tweets-sent/
12 http://www.zdnet.com/gizmodos-twitter-account-hacked-7000002130/
13 http://ozdc.net/archives.php?aid=2869
14 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Site-of-India-s-Minister-of-Communications-and-IT-Hacked-by-Anonymous-285097.shtml
15 http://news.softpedia.com/news/PBBans-Relocates-Servers-After-Being-Hit-by-DDOS-Attack-285353.shtml
16 http://ozdc.net/archives.php?aid=2872
17 http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/anonymous-attacks-ukrainian-government-websites-and-threatens-with-further-
action-311234.html
18 http://news.softpedia.com/news/WikiLeaks-Taken-Down-by-DDOS-Attack-AntiLeaks-Takes-Credit-285771.shtml
19 http://www.newschief.com/article/20120807/NEWS/208075028/-1/opinion?Title=Website-hacked-staff-working-to-get-it-
back-up&tc=ar
20 https://twitter.com/Cabledrummer/status/233030298240155649
21 http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/08/08/australian-institute-of-business-brokers-hacked-for-opaustralia/
22
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/433131/australian_institute_business_brokers_denies_anonymous_password_breach/
23 http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5349
24 http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/08/08/dsd-asio-websites-attacked-by-anonymous-for-opaustralia/
25 http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193767/Gauss_Nation_state_cyber_surveillance_meets_banking_Trojan
26 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/blizzard-battle-net-gets-hacked-says-members-change-220027322.html
27 http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2012/08/08/nepalese-government-websites-compromised-to-
serve-zegost-backdoor.aspx
28 http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpDemonoid-Ukrainian-Ministry-of-Defense-Site-Taken-Down-by-Anonymous-285933.shtml
29 http://rt.com/usa/news/utah-road-hackers-sign-389/
30 http://news.softpedia.com/news/HP-Training-Center-Defaced-by-Hitcher-in-Protest-Against-Israel-286278.shtmlx
31 http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/08/13/torrent-site-scanbits-org-hacked-9000-accounts-leaked/
32 http://cylaw.info/?p=1087
33 http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/08/15/uganda-government-under-attack-by-anonymous-for-anti-lgbt/
34 http://news.softpedia.com/news/RUTracker-Hacked-Displays-Domain-Seized-by-ICE-Message-286486.shtml
35 http://www.trusteer.com/blog/citadel-trojan-targets-airport-employees-with-vpn-attack

5. 36 http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260940/atandt_hit_by_ddos_attack_suffers_dns_outage.html
37 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/net-us-hacking-reuters-saudi-idUSBRE87E0HU20120815
38 http://hackmageddon.com/2012/08/16/another-massive-cyber-attack-in-middle-east/
39 http://hackmageddon.com/2012/08/17/heres-shamoon/