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Spain's highways agency is using bulk mobile phone data for monitoring speeding hotspots, according to local reports. Equipped with data on customers handed over by local mobile phone operators, Spain's Directorate-General for Traffic may be gathering data on "Which roads and at what specific kilometer points the speed limits are usually exceeded," according to Granadan newspaper Ideal.
Researchers are warning of a remote overlay malware attack that leverages a fake Chrome browser plugin to target the accounts of banking customers in Spain. Grandoreiro is a type of remote overlay banking trojan, designed to help attackers overtake devices and display a full-screen overlay image when victim accesses their online banking account.
A ransomware attack has ransacked at least two Spanish companies, leaving their employees without computer access.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced it will open an infrastructure region in Spain. The new AWS Europe (Spain) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and will...
A Spanish private security firm, which is under investigation in Madrid, spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the CIA while he was inside the Ecudoran embassy in London, El Pais...
Spain has extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, drawing protest from Taiwan's government. The suspects arrived Friday morning at Beijing airport on a...
Website of Spain's Central Bank Was Temporarily OfflineSpain's central bank says its website was intermittently offline as it struggled to repel a distributed denial-of-service attack. The...
Hackers from the Anonymous collective claimed responsibility for bringing down government websites in Spain on Monday in a protest against Madrid's efforts to block Catalonia's separatist drive. read more
Crime Ring Allegedly Sold Counterfeit Products and Services via Amazon, AirbnbFollowing 33 arrests, police in Europe say they have dismantled a Romanian-led crime gang that used phishing attacks,...
$1 Billion in Losses Tied to Gang Wielding Carbanak and Cobalt MalwareThe alleged leader of a cybercrime gang tied to more than $1 billion in losses has been arrested in Alicante, Spain....