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 perl.com domain has been hijacked

The Perl NOC, the blog dedicated to the infrastructure around the Perl programming language, has reported that the domain perl.com was hijacked on 27th of January and, at the time of publication,...

References: 

log.perl.org

bleepingcomputer.com

securityaffairs.co

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Cybercrime

Incident

Internet

Malware

Tool

One step closer to the end of NetWalker

The US Department of Justice, in cooperation with authorities in Bulgaria, has announced a coordinated international law enforcement action aimed at stopping the NetWalker ransomware, bringing...

References: 

justice.gov

blog.chainalysis.com

zdnet.com

bleepingcomputer.com

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#CyberCOVID19

Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Encryption

Incident

Internet

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Tool

An International collaboration disrupts Emotet botnet

Europol has issued a statement informing that the botnet, EMOTET, has been disrupted following an international operation, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, involving law enforcement and...

References: 

europol.europa.eu

bleepingcomputer.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

xataka.com

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Botnet

Cybercrime

Incident

Internet

Malware

Public administration

Campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers detected

Google has identified an ongoing campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers working on study of vulnerabilities across multiple companies and organizations, suspected to be perpetrated by an...

References: 

blog.google

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

microsoft.com

blog.google

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0day

Botnet

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Google

Incident

Information leakage

Internet

Malware

Microsoft

Social networks

Vulnerability

Malwarebytes, another victim of SolarWinds security incident perpetrators

Malwarebytes, the popular cybersecurity services company, has confirmed that it has suffered a cyberattack by the same threat actors that caused the security incidents stemming from the SolarWinds...

References: 

blog.malwarebytes.com

bleepingcomputer.com

infosecurity-magazine.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cloud computing

Cybercrime

Incident

Internet

Malware

Microsoft

Computers containing malware were given to UK schools

The UK Department for Education has reported that some of the more than 800.000 laptops, given to UK schools because of the pandemic situation, contained malware.The infection was discovered by...

References: 

bbc.com

bleepingcomputer.com

technadu.com

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#CyberCOVID19

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Tool

Data leak confirmed at Sangoma

Sangoma Technologies Corporation, a company dedicated to providing unified communications solutions, also at the service level (UCaaS), and voice over IP (VoIP) and dedicated to the development of...

References: 

sangoma.com

bleepingcomputer.com

siliconangle.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Encryption

Incident

Information leakage

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

The VPN service known as Safe-Inet is dismantled

The Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, known as Safe-Inet, and preferably used, according to police sources, by cybercriminals worldwide, as it has a robust identity concealment system, was...

References: 

europol.europa.eu

infosecurity-magazine.com

genbeta.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Encryption

Incident

Internet

Malware

Other critical infrastructures

Public administration

Tool

The DarkIRC botnet aims to exploit vulnerable Oracle WebLogic servers

Researchers from Juniper Threat Labs have reported up to 5 types of cyberattacks against more than 3000 exposed Oracle WebLogic servers, including a botnet called DarkIRC.The goal of the...

References: 

blogs.juniper.net

incibe-cert.es

bleepingcomputer.com

noticiasseguridad.com

bankinfosecurity.com

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Botnet

Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Incident

Industrial Control System

Information leakage

Internet

Malware

Vulnerability

Advantech, víctima de un incidente tipo ransomware Conti

Chip manufacturer Advantech, focused on the industrial automation and IIoT sector, has reported a Conti ransomware cyberattack against its IT network involving the encryption and theft of...

References: 

bleepingcomputer.com

threatpost.com

itdigitalsecurity.es

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Encryption

Incident

Industrial Control System

Information leakage

IoT

Malware

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