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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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Ransomware WannaCry infects multitude of computers

05/15/2017
Since last Friday, it has been published the infection of tens of thousands of computers in almost one hundred of countries by a ransomware identified as one of the WannaCry variants. The affected...
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certsi.es
certsi.es
telegraph.co.uk
cadenaser.com
forbes.com
independent.co.uk
blogs.microsoft.com
bbc.com
elconfidencial.com
lasexta.com
internacional.elpais.com
theguardian.com
securelist.com
symantec.com
lavanguardia.com
internacional.elpais.com
cbsnews.com
bbc.com
fbi.gov
unaaldia.hispasec.com
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Cybercrime
Energy
Health
Incident
Malware
Other critical infrastructures
Public administration
Vulnerability

US expels 35 Russian diplomats over cyber attack allegations

12/29/2016
US President Barack Obama has ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats accused of espionage operations in response to cyberattacks during the presidential election. Several sanctions have also...
References: 
whitehouse.gov
us-cert.gov
nytimes.com
theguardian.com
arstechnica.com
elmundo.es
internacional.elpais.com
internacional.elpais.com
certsi.es
certsi.es
certsi.es
certsi.es
certsi.es
certsi.es
us-cert.gov
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APT
Cyberespionage
Incident
Information leakage
Public administration

Pentagon´s email system attacked

08/06/2015
According to US network NBC, the Pentagon was the victim of a computer attack presumably originated from Russia. The attack was detected on 25 July and focused their attention on the email system....
References: 
nbcnewyork.com
businessinsider.com
securityweek.com
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Cyberespionage
Public administration

German Patriot missiles attacked

07/08/2015
Six launchers and two German Patriot radars deployed in Turkey near the Syrian border, carried out “unexplained” commands for a limited time. Supposedly these commands were issued by "unknown...
References: 
rt.com
hispantv.com
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Cybercrime
Public administration

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