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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REvil cybercriminals were taken offline

The Russian cybercriminal group REvil has been pushing offline after a joint operation between several countries, in which the FBI, which already had a universal decryption key, hijacked and...

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techcrunch.com

reuters.com

genbeta.com

elespanol.com

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Leak operation leaders fall into FBI trap

A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested for allegedly forming a plot to sell classified information on the design of nuclear-powered warships to a foreign government in violation...

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justice.gov

elpais.com

bleepingcomputer.com

europapress.es

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Twitch has confirmed a data breach

Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has confirmed a security breach that has resulted in the exfiltration of at least 125GB of data.The torrent file, which has been posted anonymously on a forum...

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twitter.com

blog.twitch.tv

xataka.com

larazon.es

bleepingcomputer.com

osi.es

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Syniverse discloses data breach

Syniverse, a leading telecommunications service provider, has disclosed in a report to the SEC, that cybercriminals repeatedly gained unauthorised access to its IT systems, affecting its databases...

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sec.gov

vice.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

bankinfosecurity.com

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Other critical infrastructures

Cybercriminals steal funds on Coinbase

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has reported unauthorised access to user accounts, including access to personally identifiable information (PII), manipulation of account settings and theft...

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oag.ca.gov

bleepingcomputer.com

securityaffairs.co

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CMA CGM customer data leakage

French shipping company CMA CGM has reported a data leakage due to a bug in its corporate mobile apps, affecting a limited number of customer personal data.The incident, which followed the...

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cma-cgm.com

mundomaritimo.cl

zdnet.com

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Travis CI login credentials could have been exposed

The Travis CI platform, used for software compilation and testing tasks, has disclosed a vulnerability, CVE-2021-41077, whereby user credentials, such as API keys and access tokens, could have been...

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travis-ci.community

blog.travis-ci.com

arstechnica.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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A cyberattack against Olympus EMEA IT networks

Olympus company, a leader in for medical and industrial equipment solutions, has reported a cyberattack against its sales and manufacturing IT networks, located in Europe, Middle East and Africa ...

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olympus.es

bleepingcomputer.com

techcrunch.com

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Industrial Control System

Malware

Cybercriminals gained access to UN IT network

Spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, has confirmed a data breach in which cybercriminals gained access to the IT network using stolen credentials related to the Umoja...

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un.org

bloomberg.com

europapress.es

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Thousands of Fortinet device login credentials were linked

Cybersecurity solutions provider Fortinet has confirmed that a cybercriminal has made public the SSL-VPN login credentials associated with at least 87.000 FortiGate SSL-VPN devices via the RAMP...

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fortinet.com

bleepingcomputer.com

thehackernews.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

gist.github.com

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

REvil cybercriminals were taken offline

Leak operation leaders fall into FBI trap

Twitch has confirmed a data breach

Syniverse discloses data breach

Cybercriminals steal funds on Coinbase

CMA CGM customer data leakage

Travis CI login credentials could have been exposed

A cyberattack against Olympus EMEA IT networks

Cybercriminals gained access to UN IT network

Thousands of Fortinet device login credentials were linked

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