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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BlockBuster Operation: dismantling Lazarus Group Tools

An investigation carried out between several cybersecurity companies like Novetta, Kaspersky Lab and AlienVault, denominated Blockbuster Operation, reveals that different security attacks are...

References:

certsi.es

globbsecurity.com

securelist.com

operationblockbuster.com

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Malware

Other critical infrastructures

An attack on the web server of Linux Mint, compromises the security of the users

On 20th February, the Linux Mint website was attacked by a hacker who accessed the web server and modify the ISO links of the images for the Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Edition. The modified version...

References:

globbsecurity.com

thehackernews.com

unocero.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

muylinux.com

omicrono.com

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Apple avoids creating a "backdoor" that will facilitate decoding data from an iPhone

The US Federal Court EE.UU ordered to Apple collaborate with the FBI for create a backdoor in order to decrypt the data of a mobile phone of an alleged terrorist. The company have refused to...

References:

elmundo.es

theguardian.com

lavanguardia.com

apple.com

bbc.com/mundo

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Incident

Apple

$100 million stolen from Central Bank of Bangladesh

Hackers were able to access the computer systems of the Central Bank of Bangladesh and transfer 100 million of dollars from the account that the Bank has in the the reserve Federal Bank of USA to...

References:

bloomberg.com

bbc.com

thehackernews.com

elperiodico.com

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Banking sector

Cybercrime

Incident

American and British intelligence spies for 18 years to the Israeli Air Force

According to various media and based on the leaks made by Edward Snowden, the US NSA and GCHQ in the UK would have spied on the Israeli air force during the past 18 years, after intercepting and...

References:

elmundo.es

elpais.com

theintercept.com

timesofisrael.com/

spiegel.de

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Cyberespionage

Incident

Belgian Bank loses 70M€ in fraud campaign.

Crelan, a belgian bank, has been victim of a fraud campaign losing over 70 million Euros, as discovered during an internal audit. The method used for this scam was to compromise a high-up manager's...

References:

net-security.org

news.softpedia.com

crelan.be

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Banking sector

Cybercrime

Incident

A major DDoS attack knocks out all BBC websites

On December 31, 2015, All the BBC's websites were unavailable due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The New World Hacking group claimed responsibility for the incident and inform...

References:

bbc.com

telegraph.co.uk

securityaffairs.co

thehackernews.com

segu-info.com.ar

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Cybercrime

Incident

First blackout in history due cyber-attack

The December 23, the national power grid of Ukraine suffered a cyber-attack that caused a blackout for several hours, which resulted in more than 600.000 of homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region...

References:

reuters.com

welivesecurity.com

arstechnica.com

elperiodicodelaenergia.com

incibe.es

cnn.com

wired.com

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Cybercrime

Energy

Incident

European Space Agency suffers an information leakage

More than 8000 suscriptors had their personal data, including email, phone and plaintext passwords published in the Internet. A group of cybercriminals, under the banner of Anonymous, took...

References:

hotforsecurity.com

computerworld.com

ibtimes.co.uk

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Incident

Information leakage

ISIS attacks the US power grid

The Islamic State is trying to hack American electrical power companies but these attacks have been unsuccessful. This information was disclosed last October 14 by government officials at a...

References:

money.cnn.com

businessinsider.com

breakingisraelnews.com

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Energy

Incident

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

BlockBuster Operation: dismantling Lazarus Group Tools

An attack on the web server of Linux Mint, compromises the security of the users

Apple avoids creating a "backdoor" that will facilitate decoding data from an iPhone

$100 million stolen from Central Bank of Bangladesh

American and British intelligence spies for 18 years to the Israeli Air Force

Belgian Bank loses 70M€ in fraud campaign.

A major DDoS attack knocks out all BBC websites

First blackout in history due cyber-attack

European Space Agency suffers an information leakage

ISIS attacks the US power grid

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