Cybersecurity Highlights

The city of Oakland was the victim of a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down all its systems as a precautionary measure.

Reddit, a social news aggregation, content rating and discussion website, has released a statement reporting a hack of its systems as a result of a spear phishing attack on the platform's employees.

Indigo Books & Music, Canada's largest bookstore chain, has suffered a cyber-attack, making its website unavailable to customers and only accepting cash payments at its physical stores.

Toyota's GSPIMS (Global Supplier Preparation Information Management System), a web-based application used by Toyota employees and its suppliers for coordination and other tasks related to the brand's global supply chain, was breached by a security researcher named Eaton Zveare, who reported the problem to the company.

Government agencies and CERTs in several countries have issued warnings about an active exploitation campaign against unpatched VMware ESXi servers affecting their countries, exploiting an old remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability to deploy a new ransomware called ESXiArgs.

The Diputación de Córdoba has published a press release on its official website, informing about the cyberattack received against its information systems.