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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Cyberattack on the British Army's YouTube and Twitter accounts

The press office of the British Ministry of Defense and the British Navy have managed to resolve the interruption of their YouTube and Twitter accounts after receiving a cyberattack, according to...

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twitter.com

bbc.com

20minutos.es

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Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Social networks

Lithuania receives DDoS cyberattacks by Killnet group

The Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre (NKSC) has warned of a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the Lithuanian national data transfer network, as well as other...

References:

lrv.lt

threatpost.com

cybernews.com

sandiegouniontribune.com

rtve.es

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Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Europol busts gang responsible for stealing millions by phishing

A cross-border operation, supported by Europol and involving Belgian and Dutch police, has resulted in the dismantling of a cybercriminal group involved in phishing, fraud, scams and money...

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europol.europa.eu

unaaldia.hispasec.com

thehackernews.com

therecord.media

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Cybercrime

Internet

Malware

Cloudflare mitigates the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history

Cloudflare recently revealed that it had successfully intercepted and mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS distributed denial of service attack of around 26 million requests per second (RPS).He said...

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blog.cloudflare.com

cybersecuritynews.com

itpro.co.uk

teknofilo.com

thehackernews.com

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Phishing scam at the Institut d'Informàtica de Barcelona

A group of cybercriminals have impersonated the company Sistemas Informáticos Abiertos (SIA) to request payment from the Institut d'Informàtica (IMI) for services rendered for the months of...

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lavanguardia.com

genbeta.com

elnacional.cat

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Public administration

The Austrian state of Carinthia hit by BlackCat ransomware

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has attacked the Austrian state of Carinthia, demanding the payment of five million dollars in Bitcoin to unlock all the files it has managed to encrypt.The...

References:

lavanguardia.com

euractiv.com

bleepingcomputer.com

bankinfosecurity.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Public administration

DDoS attack on Activision Blizzard

Video game company Activision Blizzard has received a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack directly on its Battle.net platform. This has reportedly resulted in some players experiencing high...

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twitter.com

express.co.uk

enhacke.com

theverge.com

areajugones.sport.es

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INCONTROLLER/PIPEDREAM malware targeting ICS/SCADA devices

Several government agencies (DOE, CISA, NSA, and FBI) have issued a joint security advisory to warn about an APT threat, called INCONTROLLER/PIPEDREAM, which has been developed to attack industrial...

References:

mandiant.com

dragos.com

wired.com

cisa.gov

computerweekly.com

techtarget.com

securityweek.com

reuters.com

incibe-cert.es

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APT

Cybercrime

Incident

Industrial Control System

Internet

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

Tool

Windows

Microsoft dismantles Russian Strontium cyberattacks against Ukraine

Microsoft has successfully dismantled, according to its blog, a series of cyber attacks targeting Ukrainian entities by Strontium, a group of cybercriminals who have been attributed with a direct...

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blogs.microsoft.com

genbeta.com

global.techradar.com

elespanol.com

iproup.com

cnnespanol.cnn.com

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Other critical infrastructures

BKA and German ZIT shut down Hydra, the most popular Russian black market on the Dark Web

The German Federal Criminal Police Office or Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), together with the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main and the German Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT),...

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hackread.com

bka.de

eldiario.es

elespanol.com

therecord.media

justice.gov

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Cyberattack on the British Army's YouTube and Twitter accounts

Lithuania receives DDoS cyberattacks by Killnet group

Europol busts gang responsible for stealing millions by phishing

Cloudflare mitigates the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history

Phishing scam at the Institut d'Informàtica de Barcelona

The Austrian state of Carinthia hit by BlackCat ransomware

DDoS attack on Activision Blizzard

INCONTROLLER/PIPEDREAM malware targeting ICS/SCADA devices

Microsoft dismantles Russian Strontium cyberattacks against Ukraine

BKA and German ZIT shut down Hydra, the most popular Russian black market on the Dark Web

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