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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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Cyberattack grounds 1400 passengers

06/21/2015
A cyberattack targeting LOT, national polish airlines, caused at least 10 international flights to be cancelled, grounding 1400 passengers. The incident, that affected the creation of new flight...
References: 
reuters.com
http://securityaffairs.co/
actualidad.rt.com/
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Cybercrime
Incident
Transport

Cyber attack on German parliament

06/08/2015
The computer network of the German parliament has been attacked, according to G DATA Security Labs, intended to test the stability and resilience of the system. The attack objetive was infect the...
References: 
eleconomista.es
gdata.es
muyseguridad.net
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Botnet
Cybercrime
Incident

US Army webpage defaced by SEA

06/08/2015
SEA (Syrian Electronic Army), one of the most advanced hacking groups, has managed to deface US Army official webpage. The attack vector seems to be the CDN used to distribute content, provided by...
References: 
arstechnica.com
nationaljournal.com
securityaffairs.co
sea.sy
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Cybercrime
Incident

Hijacked DNS servers of St. Louis Federal Reserve

05/18/2015
The St. Louis Federal Reserve, one of the twelve banks composing the U.S. Federal Reserve, has communicated that, during late April 2015, attackers succeeded in manipulating the routing...
References: 
krebsonsecurity.com
computerweekly.com
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DNS
Incident

Security Incident in Ryanair? 4.6 M€ dissapeared

04/29/2015
Five million dollars (4.6 million euro) have dissapearedn from one of Ryanair bank account due to a fraudulent electronic transfer via a Chinese bank. It seems funds have been frozen and will soon...
References: 
http://vozpopuli.com/
euronews.com
thejournal.ie
hotforsecurity.com
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Incident
Cybercrime

SendGrid hacked

04/27/2015
SendGrid , an email service used by thousands of companies, including for instance Spotify, Pinterest, Uber and Coinbase, has confirmed that an employee's account has been hacked. Through this...
References: 
sendgrid.com
krebsonsecurity.com
zdnet.com
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Information leakage
Internet
Incident

TV5Monde hacked by cybercriminals

04/08/2015
TV5Monde, second most diffused TV in the world, suffered this 8th April a yihadist cyber attackallegedly associated with Islamis State, that caused emission to stop from 10pm until 1 am. Attackers...
References: 
theguardian.com
elperiodico.com
europapress.es
securityaffairs.co
bbc.com
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Cybercrime
Incident
Social networks

Unauthorized certificates from CNNIC for Google domains

03/20/2015
Google has detected several unauthorized digital certificates issued for Google domains. These certificates were issued by an intermediary authority controlled by MCS Holdings, whose certificate...
References: 
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.es
cnnic.cn
blog.mozilla.org
technet.microsoft.com
arstechnica.com
zdnet.com
threatpost.com
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Google
Internet
Incident

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