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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The European Central Bank shuts down compromised BIRD website

The European Central Bank (ECB) reported, through a statement, a security breach produced on the website of its system BIRD (Banks Integrated Reporting Dictionary).The attackers had breached the...

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ecb.europa.eu

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Banking sector

Information leakage

Malware

Johannesburg victim of ransomware cyberattack

Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, has been hit by a ransomware cyber-attack that has infected an electricity provider and consequently left some of its residents without electricity.The...

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twitter.com

teknofilo.com

bbc.com

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Public administration

New Silex malware blocks IoT devices

A new malware named Silex has successfully attacked more than 2,000 IoT devices in just over 4 hours.Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar was the first to discover this malware. Once the device has...

References:

zdnet.com

xataka.com

bleepingcomputer.com

threatpost.com

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IoT

Malware

Two Florida cities, victims of ransomware cyberattacks

Two Florida cities, Riviera Beach and Lake City, have been victims of ransomware cyberattacks in recent months.Telephone lines, e-mail and even some government services, such as the possibility for...

References:

apnews.com

actionnewsjax.com

cbsnews.com

bbc.com

elpais.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Public administration

Ransomware forces closure of ASCO factories

ASCO, a Belgian company that manufactures components for both military and commercial aircraft, was the victim of a ransomware attack on 7 June.The company has issued a statement explaining that...

References:

asco.be

zdnet.com

securityweek.com

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Incident

Malware

Joint operation before the closure of GandCrab ransomware

The cybercriminals responsible for GandCrab, a ransomware that emerged in January 2018 and has brought numerous economic revenues to its creators, especially due to its facet of RaaS (Ransomware as...

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blogs.protegerse.com

labs.bitdefender.com

zdnet.com

redeszone.net

assets.documentcloud.org

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Google confirms the existence of a pre-installed backdoor on Android devices

Google discovered that a sophisticated malware, called Triada, was pre-installed on some Android devices. Apparently, Triada had been included in the system images as a third-party code, and it...

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security.googleblog.com

arstechnica.com

theverge.com

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Android

Incident

Malware

Windows RDP Server on the spotlight of the Goldbrute botnet

Cybersecurity researcher Renato Marinho at Morphus Labs, has discovered a new brute-force attack based botnet against 1,5 million Windows RDP (Remote Desktop protocol) Servers.This campaign, dubbed...

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morphuslabs.com

thehackernews.com

news.sophos.com

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Thousands of MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers infected in Nansh0u campaign

Experts from Guardicore Labs, a cybersecurity research company, published an extensive report on 29 May detailing a cryptojacking campaign, called Nansh0u, that attacked MS-SQL (Windows) and...

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guardicore.com

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Malware

Europol and U.S. Department of Justice dismantle international cybercrime network

An international operation coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol has succeeded in dismantling a complex network of cybercriminals.The criminals would have obtained an estimated ...

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europol.europa.eu

justice.gov

databreachtoday.com

bleepingcomputer.com

cuatro.com

elpais.com

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Public administration

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

The European Central Bank shuts down compromised BIRD website

Johannesburg victim of ransomware cyberattack

New Silex malware blocks IoT devices

Two Florida cities, victims of ransomware cyberattacks

Ransomware forces closure of ASCO factories

Joint operation before the closure of GandCrab ransomware

Google confirms the existence of a pre-installed backdoor on Android devices

Windows RDP Server on the spotlight of the Goldbrute botnet

Thousands of MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers infected in Nansh0u campaign

Europol and U.S. Department of Justice dismantle international cybercrime network

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