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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Denial of service attack disables Lloyds web services for 48 hours

British bank Lloyds was the target of a denial-of-service cyber-attack (DDoS) that caused the online banking service malfunctioning, preventing users from accessing normally.The bank and the...

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eleconomista.es

bbc.com

theinquirer.net

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‘Avalanche’ network dismantled in international operation

In an unprecedented global law enforcement operation, a four-year joint investigation between Europol, Eurojust, FBI and authorities in the U.K. and Germany has culminated with dismantling of ...

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europol.europa.eu

krebsonsecurity.com

welivesecurity.com

genbeta.com

krebsonsecurity.com

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New release of Mirai caused internet connection problems for 900.000 Deutsche Telekom customers

Along Sunday 26 November and Monday several attacks of what seems to be a new version of the botnet Mirai left disabled about 900,000 routers of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. Affected Zyxel branded...

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pcworld.com

arstechnica.com

csoonline.com

abc.es

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DDoS attack on DNS service provider out of service to multiple sites like PlayStation Network and Twitter

The manage DNS service of Dyn, a cloud-based Internet Management company, suffered several DDoS attacks disrupted access to many sites as important as New York Times, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify,...

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tecnologia.elpais.com

elmundo.es

hub.dyn.com

krebsonsecurity.com

arstechnica.com

thenextweb.com

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Hundreds of thousands of IP cameras used for the largest DDoS attack

The largest DDoS attack, in terms of bandwidth used, known to date was performed by thousands of IoT devices, mostly IP cameras connected to the Internet believed to belong to a botnet dedicated to...

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krebsonsecurity.com

hotforsecurity.com

arstechnica.com

twitter.com

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The FBI reports attacks against American voting system

FBI has reported evidence than foreign hackers have breached into electoral database in two states in the last weeks. In Illinois, personal data of 200.000 voters were stolen, an incident that...

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yahoo.com

washingtonpost.com

computerworld.com

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Pokemon Go servers affected by DDoS attack

The servers of the popular game Pokemon Go developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices have fallen as a result of a possible DDoS attack, as announced by the company on Twitter. The authorship...

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gizmodo.com

www.mirror.co.uk

andro4all.com

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USA connects 7 hackers with several cyberattacks

US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against seven hackers in connection with DoS cyberattacks on 46 financial institutions and a dam. The seven hackers, facing 10 years imprisonment, are...

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efe.com

terra.com

usnews.com

huffingtonpost.com

diariovasco.com

yahoo.com

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Two Bitcoins operators, white of DDoS attacks

The Bitcoin operators BTCC, of Chinese origin and BTC-e, of Bulgarian origin, has announced, through their respective twitter accounts, be victims of distributed denial of service attacks on...

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criptonoticias.com

bloquezero.com

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Attack on Internet DNS root servers

It has been published an attack to multiple DNS root servers on the Internet during two days and with a traffic volume of 5 million requests per second, 250 times higher than usual. The attack was...

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http://root-servers.org/

http://arstechnica.com/

http://www.omicrono.com/

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Denial of service attack disables Lloyds web services for 48 hours

‘Avalanche’ network dismantled in international operation

New release of Mirai caused internet connection problems for 900.000 Deutsche Telekom customers

DDoS attack on DNS service provider out of service to multiple sites like PlayStation Network and Twitter

Hundreds of thousands of IP cameras used for the largest DDoS attack

The FBI reports attacks against American voting system

Pokemon Go servers affected by DDoS attack

USA connects 7 hackers with several cyberattacks

Two Bitcoins operators, white of DDoS attacks

Attack on Internet DNS root servers

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