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.

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...

References: 

nordvpn.com

torguard.net

techcrunch.com

genbeta.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

Tags: 

Cybercrime

Incident

Tool

Vulnerability

Avast suffers a cyberattack against its VPN

Avast, a Czech cybersecurity software multinational, has admitted in a statement that it was the victim of a cybersecurity campaign called Abiss, in which its network was accessed.Avast discovered...

References: 

blog.avast.com

forbes.com

zdnet.com

genbeta.com

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Application

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

The council of Jerez de la Frontera is the victim of a cyberattack

The local government of the city of Jerez de la Frontera has suffered a ransomware-type cyberattack that encrypted the files hosted on more than 50 computer servers, paralyzing, in this way, the...

References: 

twitter.com

diariodejerez.es

diariodejerez.es

twitter.com

twitter.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Encryption

Incident

Malware

Public administration

Valencia's municipal transport company suffers CEO fraud

The managing director of the EMT (Empresa Municipal de Transportes, municipal transport company) of Valencia, Josep Enric García Alemany, has reported the complaint filed with the National Police...

References: 

europapress.es

efe.com

elpais.com

officialpress.es

lavanguardia.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Public administration

Transport

Data leak from millions of Ecuadorians

vpnMentor's team of cybersecurity experts, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, discovered a large data leak that affects millions of people in Ecuador.The origin of the information leak, which affects...

References: 

telecomunicaciones.gob.ec

vpnmentor.com

zdnet.com

lavanguardia.com

edition.cnn.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Information leakage

Public administration

A malware campaign by Stealth Falcon group discovered

ESET researchers, along with previous researches by Citizen Labs and International Amnesty, has discovered a spyware dissemination campaign. It has been determined that the Stealth Falcon group is...

References: 

welivesecurity.com

threatpost.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Malware

Windows

Toyota subsidiary victim of email fraud

Toyota Boshoku Corporation, a manufacturer of automotive components belonging to the Toyota Motor Corporation group, announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million after...

References: 

toyota-boshoku.com

bleepingcomputer.com

scmagazineuk.com

ituser.es

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Cybercrime

Incident

Transport

Unauthorized access to Foxit Software user accounts

Foxit Software, a Company dedicated to the creation of products, services and solutions to manage PDF documents, detected a non-authorized access to user accounts of its “My account” platform.As...

References: 

foxitsoftware.com

osi.es

incibe.es

theregister.co.uk

databreachtoday.com

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Incident

Information leakage

Google reveals how an iOS malware campaign works

In early 2019, Google’s Threats Analysis Group (TAG) notified Apple about 14 vulnerabilities affecting iPhone devices from versions iOS 10 to iOS 12. This vulnerabilities was patched on out-of-band...

References: 

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

support.apple.com

forbes.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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0day

Apple

Google

Malware

Vulnerability

Google improves Google Play Security Reward Program

In 2017, Google launched the Google Play Security Rewards Program (GPSRP) and three years after its creation, they have just announced an improvement in the program.With the aim of improving...

References: 

android-developers.googleblog.com

zdnet.com

xatakandroid.com

andro4all.com

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Android

Application

Google

Malware

Vulnerability

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