Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.

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Individualized extortion to customers and employees of Vastaamo

Employees and thousands of patients at the Finnish psychotherapy centre, Vastaamo, have been extorted due to the theft and publication of their personal information following a security incident in...

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vastaamo.fi

theguardian.com

retina.elpais.com

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Cybercriminal steals $ 24 million from cryptocurrency service Harvest Finance

About 24 million USD in tokens have been stolen from Harvest Finance, a decentralized finance protocol (DeFi), by a cybercriminal.The incident, detected on October 26, thanks to analytics service...

References:

medium.com

zdnet.com

es.beincrypto.com

criptonoticias.com

technadu.com

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US Office of Financial Crimes Control Sanctions Various Cryptocurrency Mixing Services

The Office of Financial Crimes Control, of the United States Department of the Treasury (FinCEN), has sanctioned the cryptocurrency mixing services, Helix and Coin Ninja, owned by Larry Dean Harmon...

References:

fincen.gov

bleepingcomputer.com

cointelegrah.com

beincrypto.com

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Banking sector

Cryptocurrency

Public administration

Members of the QQAAZZ group are accused of laundering stolen money

Operation 2BaGoldMule, led by Europol and involving 16 countries, has resulted in the arrest of several people suspected of belonging to the criminal organization QQAAZZ and accused of attempting...

References:

europol.europa.eu

zdnet.com

seguridadyfirewall.cl

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Public administration

Europol coordinates the DisrupTor operation against the Dark Web

Operation DisrupTor is the name given to an international collaboration between various bodies, such as the German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt), the Dutch National Police (Politie),...

References:

europol.europa.eu

wired.com

engadget.com

xataka.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Internet

Public administration

Telecom Argentina, hit by ransomware

Telecom, a telecommunications company in Argentina, reported having managed to contain a ransomware cyberattack against its systems without paying the $7.5 million in Monero demanded by the...

References:

hispasec.com

lanacion.com.ar

bitcoin.com

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Security incident on Twitter affects several profiles

Twitter has published a thread on its official user support channel in which it has made public a cyber security incident that has affected some accounts on the platform, many of them company...

References:

twitter.com

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

xataka.com

elconfidencial.com

genbeta.com

justice.gov

assets.documentcloud.org

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Cryptocurrency mining and DDoS attacks on Docker servers

Cyberattackers are taking the opportunity to target exposed Docker API endpoints, a project that automates the deployment of applications within software containers, to create images infected with...

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blog.trendmicro.com

unit42.paloaltonetworks.com

thehackernews.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

Nearly a dozen supercomputers and data centers from different European research institutions have suffered cyberattacks. Specifically, cases have been detected in Switzerland, Germany and the...

References:

cadosecurity.com

zdnet.com

bleepingcomputer.com

xataka.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Other critical infrastructures

Tool

InfinityBlack group dismantled in Poland and Switzerland

Polish and Swiss law enforcement authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, have dismantled InfinityBlack, a group of cybercriminals dedicated to distributing stolen user credentials, creating...

References:

europol.europa.eu

zdnet.com

ccn-cert.cni.es

threatpost.com

adslzone.net

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Individualized extortion to customers and employees of Vastaamo

Cybercriminal steals $ 24 million from cryptocurrency service Harvest Finance

US Office of Financial Crimes Control Sanctions Various Cryptocurrency Mixing Services

Members of the QQAAZZ group are accused of laundering stolen money

Europol coordinates the DisrupTor operation against the Dark Web

Telecom Argentina, hit by ransomware

Security incident on Twitter affects several profiles

Cryptocurrency mining and DDoS attacks on Docker servers

European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

InfinityBlack group dismantled in Poland and Switzerland

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