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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Malware infects foreign embassies in Iran

Kaspersky Lab has warned of several attempts to infect foreign embassies in Iran with a home-made program, which appears to use a Remexi malware backdoor update along with several legitimate tools...

References:

infochannel.info

securitic.com.mx

cso.computerworld.es

pcbuyersguide.com.ph

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Malware

Public administration

Information leakage

Cyberespionage

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...

References:

airbus.com

eldiario.es

europapress.es

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

threatpost.com

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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

Exposed personal data of NASA employees

NASA issued an internal statement revealing that one of its servers suffered unauthorized access on October 23, 2018.According to Bob Gibbs, assistant administrator of the Office of Human Resources...

References:

spaceref.com

theregister.co.uk

thehackernews.com

tekcrispy.com

elespectador.com

seguridadyfirewall.cl

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Cyberespionage

Information leakage

Incident

Compromised e-mail accounts of NRCC officials

The US National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has stated that, in April 2018, suffered a cyberattack that involved access to the e-mail accounts of four high-ranking officials.According...

References:

politico.com

cyberscoop.com

huffingtonpost.com

usnews.com

infobae.com

eldiario.es

databreachtoday.com

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Cyberespionage

Information leakage

Incident

FASTCash, the malware used by Lazarus to steal millions of ATMs

The multinational company Symantec has published the results of its investigation into the wave of financial attacks perpetrated by Lazarus, which it carried out following an alert issued by US...

References:

us-cert.gov

symantec.com

hipertextual.com

incibe-cert.es

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Suspected Russian cyber attacks to British and Dutch institutions

Various sources report that the British Government has accused the Russian military espionage agency GRU of launching cyber attacks indiscriminately, to undermine national stability, against a...

References:

ncsc.gov.uk

news.sky.com

bbc.com

independent.co.uk

elmundo.es

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Public administration

Other critical infrastructures

Trend Micro Apps are removed from the App Store for collecting data

Apple has been forced to remove several applications from its Mac App Store from Trend Micro security provider, because they collected data from their users without their consent. Among the...

References:

blog.trendmicro.com

blog.malwarebytes.com

cyberscoop.com

thehackernews.com

searchsecurity.techtarget.com

ciberseguridadlatam.com

genbeta.com

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Apple

Cyberespionage

Information leakage

InvisiMole, spyware active for 5 years

InvisiMole is an spyware that it has used during five last years in directed attacks to Russian and Ukrainian objetives. The main peculiarity of this malware is that it has been used against...

References:

welivesecurity.com

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cyberespionage

At least 500,000 devices infected by VPNFilter malware

Cisco researchers have published a report that alerts on a new malware called VPNFilter, whose main objective are domestic routers, small business and NAS storage devices.The attack has been...

References:

blog.talosintelligence.com

blogs.cisco.com

adslzone.net

eleconomista.es

blog.talosintelligence.com

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Cyberespionage

Information leakage

Malware

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Malware infects foreign embassies in Iran

Airbus suffers a cyberattack that exposes professional and employee data

DNS hijacking campaign

Exposed personal data of NASA employees

Compromised e-mail accounts of NRCC officials

FASTCash, the malware used by Lazarus to steal millions of ATMs

Suspected Russian cyber attacks to British and Dutch institutions

Trend Micro Apps are removed from the App Store for collecting data

InvisiMole, spyware active for 5 years

At least 500,000 devices infected by VPNFilter malware

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