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.

LastPass security breach

The company's CEO has issued a statement on the LastPass blog that it has suffered a security incident in its password manager. The breach has allowed cybercriminals to access parts of the...

References: 

blog.lastpass.com

thehackernews.com

europapress.es

genbeta.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

Incident

Information leakage

Tool

0day vulnerability exploited in General Bytes

General Bytes, a global provider of Bitcoin ATMs, has been the victim of a cyber-attack that exploited a 0day vulnerability in the CAS (computer algebra system) administrator interface.According to...

References: 

generalbytes.atlassian.net

diariobitcoin.com

cointelegraph.com

es.gizmodo.com

businessinsider.es

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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0day

Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

e-commerce

Incident

Tool

Vulnerability

Google blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack to date

Google has officially announced that the largest HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which peaked at 46 million requests per second, was neutralised in June.A...

References: 

cloud.google.com

bleepingcomputer.com

theregister.com

csoonline.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cybercrime

Denial of service

Google

Incident

Internet

Malware

5400 rpm hard disks vulnerable to sound frequencies in a song

Raymond Chen, a software engineer at Microsoft, has published a post with information about a vulnerability that is capable of crashing certain laptop models when playing certain sound frequencies,...

References: 

devblogs.microsoft.com

bleepingcomputer.com

genbeta.com

elmundo.es

20minutos.es

larazon.es

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Vulnerability

Mailchimp security breach exposes DigitalOcean customer data

DigitalOcean has reported a recent security incident at MailChimp, which has resulted in some customers' email addresses being leaked, with a small number of them receiving unauthorised password...

References: 

mailchimp.com

digitalocean.com

diariobitcoin.com

theregister.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Cryptocurrency

Cybercrime

Cyberespionage

e-commerce

Incident

Information leakage

Internet

Malware

Social networks

Tool

Cisco suffers cyberattack on IT network

Cisco has officially announced a security incident that occurred on 24 May, affecting the company's IT infrastructure, linking the detected threat actor to the Lapsus$, UNC2447 and Yanluowang...

References: 

tools.cisco.com

blog.talosintelligence.com

bleepingcomputer.com

therecord.media

cso.computerworld.es

forbes.com

Tags: 

Cybercrime

Encryption

Incident

Internet

Malware

Twitter confirms a vulnerability that has affected the data of its users

The company Twitter, on an official statement published on its website, from the privacy center, has reported an incident that has allowed the theft of data from some of its user accounts. The...

References: 

privacy.twitter.com

abcnews.go.com

economictimes.indiatimes.com

elespanol.com

lavozdegalicia.es

engadget.com

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0day

Incident

Information leakage

Social networks

Vulnerability

Data leakage in Twilio, Slack and Cloudflare by smishing their workers

These three companies have been victims of a smishing cyberattack by sending SMS to their workers, where they were asked to update their passwords through the link that appeared in the text message...

References: 

twilio.com

bleepingcomputer.com

blog.cloudflare.com

elhacker.net

Tags: 

Cybercrime

Incident

Information leakage

Internet

Cyberattack on the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

In an official communiqué, published on the website of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the cyberattack suffered by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), a body dependent on the...

References: 

ciencia.gob.es

abc.es

elmundo.es

elpais.com

bleepingcomputer.com

Tags: 

Cybercrime

Encryption

Incident

Malware

Public administration

Cyberattack on Radioactivity Alert Network

The National Police have arrested the 2 alleged perpetrators of a cyberattack on the Radioactivity Alert Network (RAR) of the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Emergencies (DGPGE),...

References: 

policia.es

elpais.com

elmundo.es

bleepingcomputer.com

genbeta.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Industrial Control System

Nuclear power

Public administration

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