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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European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

Nearly a dozen supercomputers and data centers from different European research institutions have suffered cyberattacks. Specifically, cases have been detected in Switzerland, Germany and the...

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cadosecurity.com

zdnet.com

bleepingcomputer.com

xataka.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Diebold Nixdorf suffers cyberattack from ProLock ransomware

Diebold Nixdorf, a leading provider of ATMs and payment technology for banks and retailers, has recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its operations.ProLock, the name of the...

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krebsonsecurity.com

bankinfosecurity.com

noticiasseguridad.com

group-ib.com

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Firebase platform suffers from data exposure

Firebase, a Google platform for developing web and mobile applications, has exposed sensitive information from more than 4,000 applications that use its database, due to poor permission settings by...

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comparitech.com

thehackernews.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Information leak in Microsoft account on GitHub

A cybercriminal has accessed the private repositories of the profile on Microsoft's GitHub and has stolen about 500 GB of information. The stolen data corresponds mainly to code samples, test...

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bleepingcomputer.com

elespanol.com

redeszone.net

zdnet.com

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Data leakage in the e-commerce company Tokopedia

Tokopedia, an Indonesian technology company specializing in electronic commerce, has suffered data breach from several million user records. The cyberattacker responsible initially published the...

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hackread.com

zdnet.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Unauthorized access to Nintendo accounts

Nintendo has confirmed, through an official statement, that more than 160,000 user accounts have been compromised since the beginning of April, through the use of the login system through the...

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twitter.com

threatpost.com

scmagazine.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

osi.es

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Data from millions of Aptoide users exposed

Aptoide, an alternative market for mobile applications that runs on the Android operating system, has been the victim of a cyberattack that has led to the leakage of information from the data of 20...

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blog.aptoide.com

zdnet.com

xatakandroid.com

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Let’s Encrypt bug in issuance of certificates

The certification authority, Let’s Encrypt, has reported a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code, specifically on Boulder, the CA (Certification Authority) software...

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community.letsencrypt.org

letsencrypt.org

unaaldia.hispasec.com

threatpost.com

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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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Cloud computing

Information leakage

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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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Cybersecurity Highlights

European supercomputers, victims of cryptojacking

Diebold Nixdorf suffers cyberattack from ProLock ransomware

Firebase platform suffers from data exposure

Information leak in Microsoft account on GitHub

Data leakage in the e-commerce company Tokopedia

Unauthorized access to Nintendo accounts

Data from millions of Aptoide users exposed

Let’s Encrypt bug in issuance of certificates

Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

NordVPN suffers from unauthorised access to a data centre

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