Cybersecurity Highlights

Filtered information from millions of Bulgarian citizens

Christian Boykov, who was working as a researcher to prevent cyber attacks, has been arrested as allegedly responsible for leaking sensitive information from millions of Bulgarian citizens. He...

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nap.bg

novinite.com

zdnet.com

infobae.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cyberespionage

Information leakage

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...

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apnews.com

actionnewsjax.com

cbsnews.com

bbc.com

elpais.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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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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Matrix Tchap app suffers security breach

Elliot Alderson (better known as Baptiste Robert) is a security researcher who discovered that Tchap's identification system, an application developed by Matrix, contained a vulnerability that...

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matrix.org

numerique.gouv.fr

medium.com

techcrunch.com

thehackernews.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

tecnonucleous.com

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Application

Leakage of personal data from FBI agents

An unknown group of cybercriminals has released the personal data of some 4,000 employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after accessing three related web servers.Although the servers...

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myemail.constantcontact.com

techcrunch.com

databreachtoday.com

urbantecno.com

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Incident in the internal network of the Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence has detected a possible intrusion into its general-purpose network. Although this network is not classified, it is used on a day-to-day basis, so it has transferred the...

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defensa.gob.es

genbeta.com

20minutos.es

lavanguardia.com

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McAfee provides new data on Operation Sharpshooter

McAfee revealed in the RSA Conference USA 2019 evidence about the campaign called Operation Sharpshooter, exposed in 2018, revealing that it is broader in complexity, scope and duration than what...

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mcafee.com

cyberscoop.com

thehackernews.com

revistabyte.es

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Botnet

Other critical infrastructures

Malware

Malware infects foreign embassies in Iran

Kaspersky Lab has warned of several attempts to infect foreign embassies in Iran with a home-made program, which appears to use a Remexi malware backdoor update along with several legitimate tools...

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infochannel.info

securitic.com.mx

cso.computerworld.es

pcbuyersguide.com.ph

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Malware

Information leakage

Cyberespionage

Pakistan's army suffers from a malware campaign called Operation Shaheen

The security firm Cylance, in collaboration with Pakistan's CERT, published an investigation in which it explains how the group nicknamed White Company, and supposedly sponsored by a state, has...

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threatvector.cylance.com

theregister.co.uk

cyberscoop.com

mercadomilitar.com

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Malware