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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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...

References:

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...

References:

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

Pharmaceutical company Bayer suffers a cyber attack

Bayer, Germany's largest pharmaceutical company, has been cyber-attacked by the Wicked Panda group of cyber-criminals operating from China.Andreas Rohr, employee of the DCSO cybersecurity group,...

References:

reuters.com

cyberscoop.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

zdnet.com

eleconomista.es

eldiario.es

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Norsk Hydro metallurgical company suffers a ransomware cyber attack

The Norwegian metallurgical company Norsk Hydro has suffered, on March 19, 2019, an attack by a variety of ransomware called LockerGoga that encrypts files on Windows devices. As a result, both the...

References:

hydro.com

kaspersky.es

ics-cert.kaspersky.com

databreachtoday.com

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

itproportal.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

Sensitive data leakage in Citrix

Citrix has reported that on March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted them to warn them that they had reason to believe that international cybercriminals had accessed their internal network.The security...

References:

citrix.com

theregister.co.uk

cyberscoop.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cloud computing

Cybercrime

Information leakage

Disarticulated an international cyber scam group

Spanish Policia Nacional in collaboration with EUROPOL and the US Secret Service, has dismantled an international group of cyber-scammers. According to the General Directorate of the Spanish...

References:

interior.gob.es

europapress.es

lavanguardia.com

itdigitalsecurity.es

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Cybercrime

Massive credential leak on the Dark Web

The British media The Register has published a new massive leak of personal data, which would affect some 617 million accounts, which have been put up for sale on the Dark Web.The published...

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theregister.co.uk

redeszone.net

itproportal.com

genbeta.com

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Airbus suffers a cyberattack that exposes professional and employee data

Airbus airline has published an announcement reporting a security incident in its information systems, specifically in its commercial aircraft business.They explain that there was unauthorised...

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airbus.com

eldiario.es

europapress.es

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

threatpost.com

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Japanese government plans to discover the insecure IoT devices of its citizens

Japanese Government approved allowing the NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) officials to try to log into citizens’ and business’ IoT devices. The goal is to get...

References:

zdnet.com

schneier.com

techspot.com

threatpost.com

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Cybercrime

IoT

DNS hijacking campaign

From the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is aware of a global Domain Name System (DNS)...

References:

us-cert.gov

threatpost.com

blog-cert.opmd.fr

fireeye.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

DNS

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Leakage of personal data from FBI agents

Triton malware compromises critical infrastructure again

Pharmaceutical company Bayer suffers a cyber attack

Norsk Hydro metallurgical company suffers a ransomware cyber attack

Sensitive data leakage in Citrix

Disarticulated an international cyber scam group

Massive credential leak on the Dark Web

Airbus suffers a cyberattack that exposes professional and employee data

Japanese government plans to discover the insecure IoT devices of its citizens

DNS hijacking campaign

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