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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Ransomware infects Hancock Health hospital

On January 11, Hancock Health hospital in Indiana, United States, was infected with the SamSam ransomware, despite having backup the CEO decided to pay the ransom that amounted to 55,000 dollars,...

References: 

hancockregionalhospital.org

bleepingcomputer.com

trendmicro.com

blog.talosintelligence.com

hacking.land

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Encryption

Incident

Malware

The Sacramento public transport agency victim of a ransomware attack

The agency dedicated to managing public transportation in the Californian city of Sacramento, in the United States, has been the victim of a Ransomware attack. It all started when the agency's...

References: 

sacramento.cbslocal.com

foxnews.com

ibtimes.com

govtech.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Encryption

Parity wallet with a value of 150 million dollars in Ethereum blocked

Last July, 150,000 Ethereum cryptocurrencies valued at 32 million dollars were stolen from the "wallet" Parity due to a vulnerability located in the portfolio. After this, the company Parity...

References: 

certsi.es

paritytech.io

medium.com

techcrunch.com

affected.parity.io/

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Cryptocurrency

Encryption

Vulnerability

DUHK, the vulnerability that endangers encrypted connections

The ANSI x9.31 RNG algorithm, generator of pseudo-random numbers used in cryptographic functions is the basis of the vulnerability called DUHK, able to get hold of the encryption keys of VPN...

References: 

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

thehackernews.com

genbeta.com

redeszone.net

blog.fortinet.com

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Encryption

Information leakage

Internet

Vulnerability

Bad Rabbit, new ransomware that spreads through fake updates

Bad Rabbit, this is the name of the new ransomware that has infected devices located mainly in Russia, also affecting other countries such as Ukraine, Bulgaria, Japan, Germany and Turkey, being the...

References: 

thehackernews.com

abc.es

elpais.es

genbeta.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Encryption

Malware

Incorrect implementation of the RSA algorithm in the Infineon library

Cybersecurity researchers have found a vulnerability in 2048 and 1024-bit RSA public key algorithms that affect systems that implement the algorithm using the Infineon library. In addition to this...

References: 

arstechnica.com

xataka.com

redeszone.net

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Encryption

Posted the private PGP key of the Adobe security team

As researcher Juho Nurminen has reported in his Twitter account, Adobe has accidentally released the PGP cryptographic protocol private key they use for e-mail communications from their security...

References: 

arstechnica.comarstechnica.com

theregister.co.uk

securityaffairs.co

news.sophos.com

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Encryption

Incident

Half a million pacemakers vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Six St Jude Medical pacemaker models endanger the lives of nearly half a million Americans who have them implanted because of different vulnerabilities that may allow an attacker to exhaust the...

References: 

theverge.com

thehackernews.com

sciencealert.com

xataka.com

Tags: 

Encryption

Vulnerability

New cyberattack to Scottish health services

The hospital service in the Lanarkshire township in Scotland has again been the victim of a cyber attack similar to the well-known WannaCry, which infected more than 300,000 computers in 150...

References: 

ibtimes.co.uk

firstpost.com

bbc.com

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Cybercrime

Encryption

Health

Incident

The San Francisco metro network suffers a ransomware attack

The San Francisco metro system has been infected by ransomware, affected about 900 of its computers. For two days the service was provided free of charge, since the machines to take out tickets or...

References: 

theregister.co.uk

arstechnica.com

csoonline.com

thehackernews.com

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Encryption

Incident

Transport

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