Top Cyber Attacks on Government Agencies

This report reviews why government entities are high-value targets and catalogs major incidents over the last decade — including phishing-led account takeovers, large ransomware incidents (Atlanta, Baltimore, Oakland, Costa Rica, Pottawatomie, Riviera Beach), the MOVEit zero-day exploited by Cl0p affecting many organizations (including U.S. government bodies), credential-stuffing against the Canadian Revenue Agency, and the global impact of WannaCry — then concludes with practical mitigations such as security awareness training, backups, cloud security, IAM best practices, and 24×7 monitoring.