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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Vestas, new victim of a ransomware attack

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a company in the wind turbine industry, has reported being the victim of a ransomware that affected the internal IT infrastructure of several of its business units.The...

References:

vestas.com

bleepingcomputer.com

reuters.com

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Cybercrime

Energy

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Industrial Control System

Data breach affecting Movistar and O2 customers

Telefónica has reported an irregular access to its IT systems from suspicious IP addresses, compromising personal data of Movistar and O2 customers, with the exception of financial data, call logs...

References:

eldiario.es

xatakamovil.com

lavanguardia.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Information leakage

Phishing attack causes data breach at EWA

Electronic Warefare Associates (EWA), a provider of electronic warfare products and services, has reported a phishing cyberattack in which a limited number of email accounts were affected and...

References:

dojmt.gov

bleepingcomputer.com

securityaffairs.co

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Cybercrime

Incident

Other critical infrastructures

Olympus faces cyberattack again

Olympus, a leader in medical and industrial equipment solutions, has reported a potential security incident affecting the IT systems of its US, Canadian and Latin American divisions.The incident...

References:

olympus-global.com

bleepingcomputer.com

securityaffairs.co

incibe-cert.es

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Cybercrime

Health

Incident

Industrial Control System

A cyber-attack on UAB servers affects its digital activity

A cyber-attack has paralysed the internal services of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and forced all computer systems to be disconnected, leaving all students without email and other...

References:

twitter.com

elpais.com

20minutos.es

abc.es

elperiodico.com

elespanol.com

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Cybercrime

Encryption

Incident

Public administration

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...

References:

justice.gov

elpais.com

bleepingcomputer.com

europapress.es

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Weir Group responds to ransomware attempt

Scottish multinational engineering company, Weir Group, has confirmed an attempted ransomware attack in September that caused temporary disruption to some of its activities, such as shipping and...

References:

global.weir

reuters.com

mining.com

bleepingcomputer.com

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Industrial Control System

Malware

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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Facebook server outage

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger services were disrupted by a global outage, affecting users in Europe, America and Asia in particular.As Facebook explains in its official statement,...

References:

engineering.fb.com

twitter.com

engineering.fb.com

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

krebsonsecurity.com

xataka.com

elpais.com

elconfidencial.com

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Several Meliá Group hotel servers suffer a cyber attack

The Meliá hotel chain reported it was the victim of a computer attack in the early morning of 4th of October, affecting several of the group's hotels, which led to the activation of response...

References:

europapress.es

20minutos.es

elespanol.com

elpais.com

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Vestas, new victim of a ransomware attack

Data breach affecting Movistar and O2 customers

Phishing attack causes data breach at EWA

Olympus faces cyberattack again

A cyber-attack on UAB servers affects its digital activity

Leak operation leaders fall into FBI trap

Weir Group responds to ransomware attempt

Twitch has confirmed a data breach

Facebook server outage

Several Meliá Group hotel servers suffer a cyber attack

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