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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Windows RDP Server on the spotlight of the Goldbrute botnet

Cybersecurity researcher Renato Marinho at Morphus Labs, has discovered a new brute-force attack based botnet against 1,5 million Windows RDP (Remote Desktop protocol) Servers.This campaign, dubbed...

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morphuslabs.com

thehackernews.com

news.sophos.com

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Thousands of MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers infected in Nansh0u campaign

Experts from Guardicore Labs, a cybersecurity research company, published an extensive report on 29 May detailing a cryptojacking campaign, called Nansh0u, that attacked MS-SQL (Windows) and...

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guardicore.com

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Malware

Corrected a leak of information in the web of the Alhambra

The personal and financial data of 4.5 million visitors to the Alhambra and almost 1,000 travel agencies have been uncovered by a fault in the official ticket booking website, which has been...

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hiberus.com

elconfidencial.com

redeszone.net

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Information theft in the OGusers community

The cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs has reported the hacking suffered by the underground community OGusers by another forum of similar characteristics RaidForums. OGusers and RaidForums are...

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vice.com

krebsonsecurity.com

gbhackers.com

europapress.es

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Information leakage

Europol and U.S. Department of Justice dismantle international cybercrime network

An international operation coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol has succeeded in dismantling a complex network of cybercriminals.The criminals would have obtained an estimated ...

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europol.europa.eu

justice.gov

databreachtoday.com

bleepingcomputer.com

cuatro.com

elpais.com

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Public administration

Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

Willem de Groot, researcher at Sanguine Security, has discovered that a group of cyberattackers have managed to take control of two web add-ons: the Picreel web analytics service and the Alpaca...

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twitter.com

zdnet.com

omicrono.elespanol.com

genbeta.com

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The crypto currency exchange platform, Binance, suffers a security breach

The platform for exchanging crypto currencies, Binance, suffered a cyberattack on 7 May 2019 that has resulted in the subtraction of 7,000 Bitcoins (BTC), equivalent to 40 million dollars.In an...

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binance.zendesk.com

techcrunch.com

databreachtoday.com

redeszone.net

genbeta.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Information leakage

Europol closes two black market portals on Dark Web

Europol has done one of the largest international raids by collaborating between different countries and organizations to close black market portals of the Dark Web, Wall Street Market and...

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europol.com

hipertextual.com

theverge.com

unaaldia.com

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Leakage of personal data from FBI agents

An unknown group of cybercriminals has released the personal data of some 4,000 employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after accessing three related web servers.Although the servers...

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myemail.constantcontact.com

techcrunch.com

databreachtoday.com

urbantecno.com

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Public administration

Triton malware compromises critical infrastructure again

Cybersecurity experts from FireEye have published a report explaining that Triton malware has been used again, after the 2017 attack, to compromise an undisclosed critical infrastructure...

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fireeye.com

techcrunch.com

wired.com

csoonline.com

zonavirus.com

dailymail.co.uk

incibe-cert.es

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Chemical industry

Cybercrime

Energy

Industrial Control Systems

Malware

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Windows RDP Server on the spotlight of the Goldbrute botnet

Thousands of MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers infected in Nansh0u campaign

Corrected a leak of information in the web of the Alhambra

Information theft in the OGusers community

Europol and U.S. Department of Justice dismantle international cybercrime network

Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

The crypto currency exchange platform, Binance, suffers a security breach

Europol closes two black market portals on Dark Web

Leakage of personal data from FBI agents

Triton malware compromises critical infrastructure again

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