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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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...

References:

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...

References:

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...

References:

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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The European Central Bank shuts down compromised BIRD website

The European Central Bank (ECB) reported, through a statement, a security breach produced on the website of its system BIRD (Banks Integrated Reporting Dictionary).The attackers had breached the...

References:

ecb.europa.eu

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Banking sector

Information leakage

Malware

Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Transport for London (TfL), the agency responsible for public transport in the British capital, revealed that some contactless card accounts in Oyster, the payment system for transport, were...

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twitter.com

theregister.co.uk

bbc.com

wired.co.uk

noticiasseguridad.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Public administration

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Transport

Honda data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

Researcher Justin Paine, through a Shodan search, discovered an Elasticsearch database, owned by Honda Motor Company, without any security measures.The information contained in the database was...

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rainbowtabl.es

bleepingcomputer.com

threatpost.com

tripwire.com

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Incident

Information leakage

Transport

Security breach at Capital One Bank

U.S. bank Capital One has identified a security breach in its systems that allowed a cybercriminal to access the personal information of several million customers, between cardholders and credit...

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press.capitalone.com

theverge.com

bbc.com

elpais.com

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Banking sector

Cybercrime

Information leakage

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

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

The European Central Bank shuts down compromised BIRD website

Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Honda data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

Security breach at Capital One Bank

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