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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Mitsubishi Electric has been the victim of a cyberattack

Mitsubishi Electric has been compromised by a data leak, approximately 200MB, due to unauthorized access.The incident was detected on June 28, 2019, and was made public last Monday, January 20. The...

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mitsubishielectric.co.jp

japantimes.co.jp

infosecurity-magazine.com

bankinfosecurity.com

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Security incident at University of Burgos

University of Burgos has suffered a cyberattack due to an unauthorized access to personal data.According to the Rectorate, the incident took place on January 14th, at 9:30, affecting some users...

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ubu.es

burgosconecta.es

diariodeburgos.es

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Cybercrime

Incident

Information leakage

Public administration

Security fail over Xiaomi cameras

Several users have been affected by a security fail using Mi Home Basic 1080p, through Google Home Hub. This fail allowed them to access to the video signal of other users with the same gadgets.One...

References:

c.mi.com

androidpolice.com

xataka.com

thehackernews.com

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Google

Information leakage

IoT

Cayman National Bank cyberattack

The Cayman National Bank issued an official statement announcing that its Isle of Man subsidiary had been cyberattacked. This information had previously been disclosed through an explanatory note...

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caymannational.com

unicornriot.ninja

vice.com

elmundo.es

elconfidencial.com

incibe-cert.es

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Public administration

Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

Comparitech, a technology services research and comparison company, has published an article detailing the exposure of 7 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts.Information displayed, stored in a non...

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theblog.adobe.com

comparitech.com

genbeta.com

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Cloud computing

Information leakage

Tool

Turla group activity report prepared by NSA and NCSC

The NSA (National Security Agency) of the United States and the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) of the United Kingdom have published a joint notice on the APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) of...

References:

us-cert.gov

media.defense.gov

ncsc.gov.uk

incibe-cert.es

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Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Data leak from millions of Ecuadorians

vpnMentor's team of cybersecurity experts, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, discovered a large data leak that affects millions of people in Ecuador.The origin of the information leak, which affects...

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telecomunicaciones.gob.ec

vpnmentor.com

zdnet.com

lavanguardia.com

edition.cnn.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Information leakage

Public administration

Unauthorized access to Foxit Software user accounts

Foxit Software, a Company dedicated to the creation of products, services and solutions to manage PDF documents, detected a non-authorized access to user accounts of its “My account” platform.As...

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foxitsoftware.com

osi.es

incibe.es

theregister.co.uk

databreachtoday.com

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Incident

Information leakage

Security breach in Imperva

Imperva, provider of cybersecurity services, has suffered a security incident allowing an exposure of information that has affected its product Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF), formerly known...

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imperva.com

thehackernews.com

zdnet.com

seguridadyfirewall.cl

zdnet.com

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Hostinger, victim of an information leak

Hostinger, a hosting and domain service, had to reset the passwords of 14 million users as a protection measure after suffering a cyber attack that led to a massive data leak.According to company...

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hostinger.com

techcrunch.com

redeszone.net

fossbytes.com

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Mitsubishi Electric has been the victim of a cyberattack

Security incident at University of Burgos

Security fail over Xiaomi cameras

Cayman National Bank cyberattack

Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

Turla group activity report prepared by NSA and NCSC

Data leak from millions of Ecuadorians

Unauthorized access to Foxit Software user accounts

Security breach in Imperva

Hostinger, victim of an information leak

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