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National Police arrest group of people for hackstorsion

The Spanish National Police have arrested 10 cybercriminals for allegedly being responsible for carrying out criminal activities on the Internet and hackstorsion to some 430 victims, after they...

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policía.es

lavanguardia.com

diariodeburgos.es

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Social networks

Interrupción del servicio DNS de Akamai a nivel global

Akamai Technologies, one of the main provider of content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services, reported a problem with Zone Apex Mapping feature of the Edge DNS service, which resulted in its...

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edgedns.status.akamai.com

twitter.com

bleepingcomputer.com

elcomercio.es

lavanguardia.com

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Supply-chain cyberattack against Kaseya VSA software

Software company Kaseya, dedicated to offer IT solutions and products to managed service providers (MSP), confirmed that it has been the victim of sophisticated supply-chain cyberattack that...

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helpdesk.kaseya.com

us-cert.cisa.gov

bleepingcomputer.com

xataka.com

thehackernews.com

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Vulnerability

A critical NATO cloud platform was compromised

A cybercriminal gang has confirmed, after its ransomware cyberattack against Everis company and by means of a ransom note shared with DDoSecrets, to have compromised the cloud platform called...

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substack.com

softpedia.com

elhacker.net

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Whois SQL database of APNIC exposed

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Asia-Pacific area, has reported the resolution of a security incident.The incident, which was detected...

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blog.apnic.net

theregistrer.com

portswigger.net

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Incident

Information leakage

Fastly network down

Fastly, one of the largest CDN (Content Delivery Network), has reported through Nick Rockwell, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure, a grave global outage due to a software bug...

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fastly.com

status.fastly.com

xataka.com

elconfidencial.com

bleepingcomputer.com

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Incident

Data theft via Fujitsu ProjectWEB

Fujitsu, a major Japanese ICT company, has confirmed unauthorised access by a third party to some of its projects via the ProjectWEB cloud tool, a SaaS software platform used to exchange files both...

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pr.fujitsu.com

nisc.go.jp

mlit.go.jo

mofa.go.jp

bleepingcomputer.com

therecord.media

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AXA faces Avaddon ransomware

French insurance company AXA confirmed on 16th of May that the IT systems of its Asian divisions located in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines were the victims of a ransomware...

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twitter.com

expansion.com

bleepingcomputer.com

derechodelared.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

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Massive DDoS attack on Belgian government websites

A massive denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting Belnet, the government-funded Internet service provider, took place on Tuesday, May 4, affecting the websites of more than 200 organizations...

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belnet.be

welivesecurity.com

zdnet.com

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Denial of service

Incident