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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Whois SQL database of APNIC exposed

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Asia-Pacific area, has reported the resolution of a security incident.The incident, which was detected...

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blog.apnic.net

theregistrer.com

portswigger.net

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Information leakage

Internet

Other critical infrastructures

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Cyberattack against Electronic Arts causes data leakage

The video game company, Electronic Arts, has suffered a cyber-attack that has caused the theft of game source code and internal tools..EA's spokesperson has stated that they are investigating a...

References:

vice.com

genbeta.com

xataka.com

bbc.com

cnn.com

hispasec.com

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Fastly network down

Fastly, one of the largest CDN (Content Delivery Network), has reported through Nick Rockwell, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure, a grave global outage due to a software bug...

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fastly.com

status.fastly.com

xataka.com

elconfidencial.com

bleepingcomputer.com

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Incident

Internet

Tool

Data theft via Fujitsu ProjectWEB

Fujitsu, a major Japanese ICT company, has confirmed unauthorised access by a third party to some of its projects via the ProjectWEB cloud tool, a SaaS software platform used to exchange files both...

References:

pr.fujitsu.com

nisc.go.jp

mlit.go.jo

mofa.go.jp

bleepingcomputer.com

therecord.media

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Public administration

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DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information

US hosting platform DititalOCean has been the victim of a confidential data leak due to a configuration flaw.Several media outlets have picked up the e-mails that the company has sent to its...

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techcrunch.com

bleepingcomputer.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Data breach at Codecov

After an investigation, the company Codecov, which offers an online platform for code testing, has confirmed a data breach via a supply chain attack affecting its Bash Uploader script.The incident,...

References:

about.codecov.io

securityweek.com

reuters.com

gizmodo.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Malicious code uploaded to PHP server

One of the developers of the PHP language, Nikita Popov, reported that the PHP source code was maliciously modified, adding a backdoor to enable remote code execution, and that the modification was...

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news-web.php.net

bankinfosecurity.com

derechodelared.com

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Fire disrupts the availability of some servers of OVHcloud

OVHcloud, one of largest hosting providers in Europe, has reported that a fire has destroyed part of its IT infrastructure located in some of its four data centres in Strasbourg, whose servers...

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status.us.ovhcloud.com

twitter.com

help.ovhcloud.com

elespanol.com

bleepingcomputer.com

ovh.com

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Cloud computing

Incident

Other critical infrastructures

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Insider discovered at Yandex

Russian specialist of Internet services and products, Yandex, has reported the presence of an insider among its staff of system administrators who has compromised multiple mailboxes.The employee in...

References:

yandex.com

bleepingcomputer.com

securityaffairs.co

infosecurity-magazine.com

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Data breach at Stormshield

Stormshield, a French company who is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for IT/OT sectors and cloud environments, has reported unauthorised access to its technical support ticket...

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stormshield.com

ssi.gouv.fr

bleepingcomputer.com

zdnet.com

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Other critical infrastructures

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Whois SQL database of APNIC exposed

Cyberattack against Electronic Arts causes data leakage

Fastly network down

Data theft via Fujitsu ProjectWEB

DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information

Data breach at Codecov

Malicious code uploaded to PHP server

Fire disrupts the availability of some servers of OVHcloud

Insider discovered at Yandex

Data breach at Stormshield

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