Cybersecurity Highlights

The Spanish National Police has arrested a Spanish citizen accused in the Spanish National Court for his alleged participation in a crime against high state institutions, discovery, disclosure of secrets (illegitimate access to databases) and money laundering in a continuous manner.

Due to a bug in an open source Redis library, ChatGPT was forced to take its service offline for a short period of time.

Medicines distributor Alliance Healthcare España suffered an IT incident in mid-March that affected its activities.

Ferrari SpA, the Italian subsidiary of Ferrari, has reported a data breach following a ransom demand received after a group of cybercriminals gained access to its IT infrastructure.

An operation by the National Police has resulted in the dismantling of a network of bank mules in Spain for receiving illicit transfers, which defrauded companies of more than four million euros.

At the end of February 2023, a joint operation by several European law enforcement agencies and the FBI, with the assistance of Europol, resulted in the arrest at the homes of several members of the criminal group responsible for carrying out large-scale cyberattacks using the DoppelPaymer ransomware.