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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Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

Comparitech, a technology services research and comparison company, has published an article detailing the exposure of 7 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts.Information displayed, stored in a non...

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theblog.adobe.com

comparitech.com

genbeta.com

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NordVPN suffers from unauthorised access to a data centre

NordVPN, a VPN provider, has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack in March 2018 that gained unauthorized access to one of the data centers of a provider in Finland where its service was...

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nordvpn.com

torguard.net

techcrunch.com

genbeta.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Security breach in Imperva

Imperva, provider of cybersecurity services, has suffered a security incident allowing an exposure of information that has affected its product Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF), formerly known...

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imperva.com

thehackernews.com

zdnet.com

seguridadyfirewall.cl

zdnet.com

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Hostinger, victim of an information leak

Hostinger, a hosting and domain service, had to reset the passwords of 14 million users as a protection measure after suffering a cyber attack that led to a massive data leak.According to company...

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hostinger.com

techcrunch.com

redeszone.net

fossbytes.com

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Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Transport for London (TfL), the agency responsible for public transport in the British capital, revealed that some contactless card accounts in Oyster, the payment system for transport, were...

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twitter.com

theregister.co.uk

bbc.com

wired.co.uk

noticiasseguridad.com

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Information leakage

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Security incident at WeTransfer causes information leakage

WeTransfer, a file-sharing platform, has issued a statement reporting a security incident on June 16 and 17 and, as a result, could not guarantee that the shipments of 232,000 users have reached...

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wetransfer.pr.co

bleepingcomputer.com

techradar.com

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Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

Willem de Groot, researcher at Sanguine Security, has discovered that a group of cyberattackers have managed to take control of two web add-ons: the Picreel web analytics service and the Alpaca...

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twitter.com

zdnet.com

omicrono.elespanol.com

genbeta.com

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Security breach exposes information from Docker Hub users

An unauthorized user gained access to a Docker Hub database, exposing sensitive information from approximately 190,000 users (less than 5% of total Docker Hub users). This information included...

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bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

linuxadictos.com

eweek.com

helpnetsecurity.com

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Information leakage

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Security breach in Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft was the victim of a security breach in its Outlook email service, which includes @hotmail.com and @msn.com email accounts, after attackers stole Outlook support staff credentials and used...

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techcrunch.com

adslzone.net

motherboard.vice.com

threatpost.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Asian Embassy Attacked by a sophisticated Malware

In the fall of 2018, Kaspersky discovered what may be the most comprehensive malware known to date, which has been named TajMahal and has 80 different components.TajMahal is capable of stealing...

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kaspersky.es

wired.com

adslzone.net

cyberscoop.com

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

NordVPN suffers from unauthorised access to a data centre

Security breach in Imperva

Hostinger, victim of an information leak

Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Security incident at WeTransfer causes information leakage

Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

Security breach exposes information from Docker Hub users

Security breach in Microsoft Outlook

Asian Embassy Attacked by a sophisticated Malware

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