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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US Police data leak

Thousands of confidential files from more than 200 police departments, training resources and intelligence centers, including police and FBI reports, were released on Friday June 19 by DDoSecrets ...

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krebsonsecurity.com

wired.com

threatpost.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Public administration

Social networks

A European police operation dismantles a network of paid audiovisual content

Agents of the National Police, in a joint and simultaneous operation with EUROPOL and EUROJUST in 14 countries, have dismantled a network specialized in the illegal distribution of audiovisual...

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europol.europa.eu

policia.es

interior.gob.es

xataka.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Internet

NASA contractor suffers cyberattack from DopplePaymer ransomware

The group of cybercriminals operating the DopplePaymer ransomware announced its attack on the Digital Management Inc. (DMI) network, a company whose client list includes several Fortune 100...

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zdnet.com

siliconangle.com

itpro.co.uk

bitcoin.es

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Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

DigiLocker fixes a vulnerability in its registry system

DigiLocker, the official platform of the Government of India for the issuance and verification of documents and certificates, has fixed a critical vulnerability that would have allowed a remote...

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twitter.com

medium.com

yetanothersec.com

thehackernews.com

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Encryption

Incident

Public administration

Tool

Vulnerability

Amazon AWS mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS cyberattack

According to Amazon's statements, in its latest Amazon AWS Shield report, the system in charge of monitoring the security of the AWS server infrastructure (Amazon Web Services), had faced what is...

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aws.amazon.com

zdnet.com

xataka.com

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Exposure of personal information in the Joomla CMS

The Joomla team, a content management system (CMS), has suffered a data leak in JRD (Joomla Resources Directory), a community for developers and providers specialized in this platform that allows...

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community.joomla.org

zdnet.com

thehackernews.com

muyseguridad.net

blogs.masterhacks.net

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Information leak in Brazilian company Natura&Co

Natura&Co, one of the main online retail business groups in Brazil, dedicated specifically to the sale of cosmetics, suffered an information leak that affected 250,000 clients of the multinational,...

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safetydetectives.com

hackread.com

welivesecurity.com

noticiasseguridad.com

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Health

Incident

Information leakage

European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

Nearly a dozen supercomputers and data centers from different European research institutions have suffered cyberattacks. Specifically, cases have been detected in Switzerland, Germany and the...

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cadosecurity.com

zdnet.com

bleepingcomputer.com

xataka.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Other critical infrastructures

Tool

Leaked sensitive information from the European Parliament

Security researcher Yash Kadakia, through his digital risk management platform ShadowMap, identified a massive data leak in the European Parliament (EP). After notifying the institution of the...

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twitter.com

politico.eu

escudodigital.com

businessinsider.es

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Incident

Information leakage

Public administration

Diebold Nixdorf suffers cyberattack from ProLock ransomware

Diebold Nixdorf, a leading provider of ATMs and payment technology for banks and retailers, has recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its operations.ProLock, the name of the...

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krebsonsecurity.com

bankinfosecurity.com

noticiasseguridad.com

group-ib.com

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

US Police data leak

A European police operation dismantles a network of paid audiovisual content

NASA contractor suffers cyberattack from DopplePaymer ransomware

DigiLocker fixes a vulnerability in its registry system

Amazon AWS mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS cyberattack

Exposure of personal information in the Joomla CMS

Information leak in Brazilian company Natura&Co

European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

Leaked sensitive information from the European Parliament

Diebold Nixdorf suffers cyberattack from ProLock ransomware

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