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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Extortion to Disney with the publication of Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Bob Iger, Disney CEO, has acknowledged that the company has suffered a cyberattack through which its new production Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has been stolen.Hackers ask for a reward in bitcoins...

References:

deadline.com

elmundo.es

elconfidencial.com

as.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Internet

Millions of Google Docs users affected by a phishing attack

Google has confirmed that it was a victim during the first days of May of a sophisticated phishing campaign that affected millions of Google Docs users. This phishing would consisted of receiving a...

References:

techcrunch.com

theguardian.com

foxnews.com

money.cnn.com

abc.es

tecnologia.elpais.com

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Cybercrime

Google

Internet

Extortion attempt to Netflix with the dissemination of stolen content

Several media have published the theft and the subsequent online publication of episodes of the fifth season of the series "Orange Is the New Black", whose its official broadcast through the...

References:

nytimes.com

theguardian.com

forbes.com

arstechnica.com

elmundo.es

ibtimes.co.uk

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Internet

IBM distributed malware accidentally via USB drives

IBM has notified about a malware detection on some of the USB drives used to store the initialization tool from its storage solutions Storwize. The models affected are V3500 - 2071 02A and 10A,...

References:

ibm.com

itnews.com

motherboard.vice.com

zdnet.com

xataka.com

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Tool

Internet

Interpol discovers in Asia thousands of Command and Control servers

Through research conducted by the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in collaboration with several private companies, cybersecurity experts have discovered 8800 servers and 270 websites...

References:

interpol.int

in.reuters.com

itsecuritynews.info

zdnet.com

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Cybercrime

Internet

Malware

The Spanish Police dismantle an international band dedicated to the commercialization of malware

Spanish National Police agents have managed to dismantle a band of cybercriminals dedicated to design, development and sell malicious software online. The malware would allow the distribution of...

References:

interior.gob.es

elmundo.es

heraldo.es

merseyside.police.uk

securityaffairs.co

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Cybercrime

Internet

Malware

Vulnerability in Miele industrial washer-disinfector

It have been published a vulnerability details in the Miele PG 8528 washer-disinfector model. This model, used mainly in clinical environments to sterilize surgical and laboratory material,...

References:

seclists.org

zdnet.com

theregister.co.uk

xataka.com

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Industrial Control System

Internet

Vulnerability

Google will invalidate more than 30,000 SSL certificates issued by Symantec

After an investigation to detect a number of security holes in the certificate validation process issued by Symantec, the Google Chrome team determined that Symantec's certificate issuing policies...

References:

groups.google.com

arstechnica.com

symantec.com

redeszone.net

computerworld.es

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Google

Internet

SSL/TLS

American farmers install Ukrainian firmware on their tractors

Recently the website motherboard.vice.com has echoed the increase in the acquisition and use by many North American farmers of firmware from the black market in order to replace the default...

References:

vice.com

xataka.com

cnet.com

eleconomista.es

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Industrial Control System

Internet

Tool

Apache Struts vulnerability paralyzes several Canadian government websites

Canadian government spokespersons have reported that the detection of unauthorized access to a server of the statistical service last March 9 caused the preventive shut down for several days of...

References:

motherboard.vice.com

reuters.com

cbc.ca

ibtimes.co.uk

cra-arc.gc.ca

certsi.es

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Incident

Internet

Vulnerability

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Extortion to Disney with the publication of Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Millions of Google Docs users affected by a phishing attack

Extortion attempt to Netflix with the dissemination of stolen content

IBM distributed malware accidentally via USB drives

Interpol discovers in Asia thousands of Command and Control servers

The Spanish Police dismantle an international band dedicated to the commercialization of malware

Vulnerability in Miele industrial washer-disinfector

Google will invalidate more than 30,000 SSL certificates issued by Symantec

American farmers install Ukrainian firmware on their tractors

Apache Struts vulnerability paralyzes several Canadian government websites

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