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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Asian Embassy Attacked by a sophisticated Malware

In the fall of 2018, Kaspersky discovered what may be the most comprehensive malware known to date, which has been named TajMahal and has 80 different components.TajMahal is capable of stealing...

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kaspersky.es

wired.com

adslzone.net

cyberscoop.com

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Pharmaceutical company Bayer suffers a cyber attack

Bayer, Germany's largest pharmaceutical company, has been cyber-attacked by the Wicked Panda group of cyber-criminals operating from China.Andreas Rohr, employee of the DCSO cybersecurity group,...

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reuters.com

cyberscoop.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

zdnet.com

eleconomista.es

eldiario.es

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Facebook accidentally saves passwords in plain text

Facebook has reported that, by mistake, it has been storing its users' passwords in plain text, although it has not provided details of this failure, it has confirmed that both Facebook and...

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newsroom.fb.com

motherboard.vice.com

genbeta.com

welivesecurity.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Norsk Hydro metallurgical company suffers a ransomware cyber attack

The Norwegian metallurgical company Norsk Hydro has suffered, on March 19, 2019, an attack by a variety of ransomware called LockerGoga that encrypts files on Windows devices. As a result, both the...

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hydro.com

kaspersky.es

ics-cert.kaspersky.com

databreachtoday.com

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

itproportal.com

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Elsevier platform credentials exposed

Mossab Hussein, CSO of cybersecurity company SpiderSilk, has found a bug in Elsevier, a multimedia scientific publishing house. A bad configuration in one of its servers, exposed email addresses...

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motherboard.vice.com

cyware.com

z6mag.com

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

latesthackingnews.com

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Incident in the internal network of the Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence has detected a possible intrusion into its general-purpose network. Although this network is not classified, it is used on a day-to-day basis, so it has transferred the...

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defensa.gob.es

genbeta.com

20minutos.es

lavanguardia.com

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McAfee provides new data on Operation Sharpshooter

McAfee revealed in the RSA Conference USA 2019 evidence about the campaign called Operation Sharpshooter, exposed in 2018, revealing that it is broader in complexity, scope and duration than what...

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mcafee.com

cyberscoop.com

thehackernews.com

revistabyte.es

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Massive credential leak on the Dark Web

The British media The Register has published a new massive leak of personal data, which would affect some 617 million accounts, which have been put up for sale on the Dark Web.The published...

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theregister.co.uk

redeszone.net

itproportal.com

genbeta.com

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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...

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airbus.com

eldiario.es

europapress.es

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

threatpost.com

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Compromised WPML website user data

The website of the popular WordPress WPML plugin has been restored after being compromised by an ex-employee on January 20, 2019, as reported from the website itself.The attacker used an old...

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wpml.org

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

welivesecurity.com

cyberscoop.com

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Asian Embassy Attacked by a sophisticated Malware

Pharmaceutical company Bayer suffers a cyber attack

Facebook accidentally saves passwords in plain text

Norsk Hydro metallurgical company suffers a ransomware cyber attack

Elsevier platform credentials exposed

Incident in the internal network of the Ministry of Defence

McAfee provides new data on Operation Sharpshooter

Massive credential leak on the Dark Web

Airbus suffers a cyberattack that exposes professional and employee data

Compromised WPML website user data

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