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.

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...

References:

twitter.com

theregister.co.uk

bbc.com

wired.co.uk

noticiasseguridad.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Public administration

Tool

Transport

Honda data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

Researcher Justin Paine, through a Shodan search, discovered an Elasticsearch database, owned by Honda Motor Company, without any security measures.The information contained in the database was...

References:

rainbowtabl.es

bleepingcomputer.com

threatpost.com

tripwire.com

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Incident

Information leakage

Transport

Security breach at Capital One Bank

U.S. bank Capital One has identified a security breach in its systems that allowed a cybercriminal to access the personal information of several million customers, between cardholders and credit...

References:

press.capitalone.com

theverge.com

bbc.com

elpais.com

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Banking sector

Cybercrime

Information leakage

Johannesburg victim of ransomware cyberattack

Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, has been hit by a ransomware cyber-attack that has infected an electricity provider and consequently left some of its residents without electricity.The...

References:

twitter.com

teknofilo.com

bbc.com

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Public administration

Possible information leakage affects FSB

Several media have voiced a possible information leak that would affect the FSB, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the successor organisation to the KGB, calling it "possibly...

References:

forbes.com

zdnet.com

xataka.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Information leakage

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...

References:

nap.bg

novinite.com

zdnet.com

infobae.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cyberespionage

Incident

Information leakage

Public administration

Vulnerability

Bluetooth LE devices can be tracked

A group of researchers from Boston University has published a scientific article in which they show how they have managed to bypass the anti-tracking protection system for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE...

References:

petsymposium.org

sophos.com

adslzone.net

muyseguridad.net

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Vulnerability

Google recognizes that they listens to fragments of the conversations users have with their devices

Google has recognized in its blog "The Keyword", that they listen to some fragments of the conversations that users have with their devices. They indicate that it is a way to improve the devices,...

References:

blog.google

techcrunch.com

abc.es

genbeta.com

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Google

Information leakage

IoT

Vulnerabilities found in Wireless Logitech devices

Cyber security researcher Marcus Mengs, has detected four new vulnerabilities that affects some Logitech Wireless devices that use the USB interfaces Unifiying, or variants of this technology, as...

References:

logi.com

bleepingcomputer.com

xataka.com

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Vulnerability

Arrest of the biggest cyberscammer in the history of Spain

The Civil Guard, in the so-called LUPIN operation, has arrested the largest cyber-staffer in the history of Spain. The detainee, a young man of 23 who had a criminal group under his command to...

References:

interior.gob.es

elmundo.es

elotrolado.net

bitlifemedia.com

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Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Honda data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

Security breach at Capital One Bank

Johannesburg victim of ransomware cyberattack

Possible information leakage affects FSB

Filtered information from millions of Bulgarian citizens

Bluetooth LE devices can be tracked

Google recognizes that they listens to fragments of the conversations users have with their devices

Vulnerabilities found in Wireless Logitech devices

Arrest of the biggest cyberscammer in the history of Spain

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