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Vitoria City Council denounces phishing scam

The City Council of Vitoria has reported to the Local Police the fraud it has detected in the payment of several invoices. According to the investigation, one of the supplier companies would have...

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blogs.vitoria-gasteiz.org

elcorreo.com

genbeta.com

gasteizhoy.com

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International operation coordinated by Europol dismantles FluBot

FluBot, a Trojan designed for Android devices and which has been present in multiple fraudulent SMS campaigns since 2020, has been deactivated in a joint operation involving the police forces of 11...

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europol.europa.eu

bleepingcomputer.com

thehackernews.com

xataka.com

abc.es

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Social networks

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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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...

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lavanguardia.com

euractiv.com

bleepingcomputer.com

bankinfosecurity.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Venezuelan doctor accused of having created Thanos and Jigsaw ransomware

The US Department of Justice has charged a Venezuelan cardiologist, who used different aliases such as Nosophoros, Aesculapius and Nabuchadnezzar, with being the creator of the Thanos and Jigsaw...

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justice.gov

hipertextual.com

cnnespanol.cnn.com

digitaltrends.com

escudodigital.com

hackarizona.org

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Cybercrime

Encryption

Costa Rica declares state of national cyberemergency

The president of the Costa Rican government has signed three national emergency decrees, one of them concerning the country's cybersecurity, due to the latest ransomware attacks by the Conti group...

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twitter.com

therecord.media

derechodelared.com

bleepingcomputer.com

vandal.elespanol.com

t3mag.lat

hd-tecnologia.com

larepublica.net

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Industrial Control System

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...

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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

Internet

Industrial Control System

Tool

Windows

INDUSTROYER2 malware used against Ukrainian energy supplier

ESET researchers, in collaboration with CERT-UA, analysed a security incident affecting an energy provider in Ukraine. Their findings were that the malware is a new adapted variant of INDUSTROYER,...

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cert.gov.ua

welivesecurity.com

thehackernews.com

blog.segu-info.com.ar

pylos.co

mandiant.com

incibe-cert.es

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Linux

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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