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Ransomware against Open University of Catalonia

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) has reported that a ransomware-type cyberattack has infected the institution's central servers. According to the UOC on...

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Cyberattack on AscendEX trading platform

AscendEX, a financial and trading company, reported in a series of tweets that it was the victim of a cyberattack on 11 December when it identified a series of unauthorised transfers from one of...

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Pfizer detected a possible insider among its employees

The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has reported one of its employees for allegedly stealing confidential documents, some of them related to the COVID-19 vaccine.Chun Xiao Li, the alleged defendant...

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Bureau Veritas suffers cyber attack on its systems

French company Bureau Veritas, specialized in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services, has reported a cyber-attack detected by its cybersecurity system.In a statement, the company...

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At least 1.2 million customers affected by GoDaddy data breach

GoDaddy, a company that provides Internet domain registration and web hosting services, has revealed it has detected unauthorised access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment, resulting in a...

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Cyber-attack on several Spanish media

Several independent media have suffered a DDoS-type cyber-attack on their websites, aimed at disrupting their services.Incidents range from the inoperability of its website to service outages,...

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Vestas, new victim of a ransomware attack

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a company in the wind turbine industry, has reported being the victim of a ransomware that affected the internal IT infrastructure of several of its business units.The...

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An error on Tesla servers locked its cars

Several customers have reported to Tesla that they have been unable to access their cars because they couldn’t communicate with them to unlock their doors by using the app, which returned a 500...

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Cloudflare blocks largest DDoS cyberattack on record

US-based Cloudflare, which operates a content delivery network and provides internet security services and distributed domain name servers, has reported blocking a DDoS attack with peaks of up to 2...

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Data breach affecting Movistar and O2 customers

Telefónica has reported an irregular access to its IT systems from suspicious IP addresses, compromising personal data of Movistar and O2 customers, with the exception of financial data, call logs...

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Ransomware against Open University of Catalonia

Cyberattack on AscendEX trading platform

Pfizer detected a possible insider among its employees

Bureau Veritas suffers cyber attack on its systems

At least 1.2 million customers affected by GoDaddy data breach

Cyber-attack on several Spanish media

Vestas, new victim of a ransomware attack

An error on Tesla servers locked its cars

Cloudflare blocks largest DDoS cyberattack on record

Data breach affecting Movistar and O2 customers

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