Cybersecurity Highlights

Spanish National Police dismantle criminal organisation dedicated to phishing

An operation by the Spanish National Police has resulted in the arrest of 6 people on suspicion of belonging to a criminal organisation, fraud, money laundering and usurpation of civil status....

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Ransomware cyberattack impacts critical services in Vanuatu

Vanuatu, an island nation in Oceania, has been the victim of a cyberattack that has affected its communications and official infrastructure, bringing down the websites of the parliament, the police...

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Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Unauthorised access to Dropbox data on GitHub

Dropbox has released a statement acknowledging that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that was exploited to gain access to code stored on GitHub. Specifically, GitHub alerted Dropbox to...

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Cyberattack against hospitals in Barcelona

The Catalan government's Department of Health has published an official statement explaining that the Concorci Sanitari Integral recorded an incident in its information systems caused by a...

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salutweb.gencat.cat

elperiodico.com

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Public administration

Personal information leak at Revolut

The neobank Revolut has reported a cyberattack on its systems, which gave an unauthorised third party access to sensitive information of some 50,150 customers (0.16% of the global total), 20,687 of...

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Information leak at Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games, a video game company, has posted a message on its official Twitter account acknowledging a cybersecurity incident.As detailed in the statement, an unauthorised third party accessed...

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Uber cybersecurity incident

Uber has released an official statement, acknowledging that it has been the victim of a cyber-attack due to the compromise of a third-party contractor's account through malware infection of the...

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Chilean government's CSIRT reports ransomware attack on SERNAC

The Chilean government's Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) reported in different announcements that the Chilean National Consumer Service (SERNAC) has been affected by a...

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csirt.gob.cl

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therecord.media

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Public administration

Google blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack to date

Google has officially announced that the largest HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which peaked at 46 million requests per second, was neutralised in June.A...

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cloud.google.com

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Mailchimp security breach exposes DigitalOcean customer data

DigitalOcean has reported a recent security incident at MailChimp, which has resulted in some customers' email addresses being leaked, with a small number of them receiving unauthorised password...

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mailchimp.com

digitalocean.com

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theregister.com

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Spanish National Police dismantle criminal organisation dedicated to phishing

Ransomware cyberattack impacts critical services in Vanuatu

Unauthorised access to Dropbox data on GitHub

Cyberattack against hospitals in Barcelona

Personal information leak at Revolut

Information leak at Rockstar Games

Uber cybersecurity incident

Chilean government's CSIRT reports ransomware attack on SERNAC

Google blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack to date

Mailchimp security breach exposes DigitalOcean customer data

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