Experts warn about the new wave of CAPTCHA scams in Spain
The global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has warned about a malicious campaign targeting Windows PC users, and Spain is one of the most affected countries.
Cybercriminals use invisible web ads that redirect users to fake CAPTCHA (the letters you need to copy to access webpages) or fraudulent error messages to trick them into downloading data-stealing programs.
Kaspersky has recorded more than 140,000 interactions with these malicious ads between September and October 2024. More than 20,000 users have been redirected to fake pages hosting malicious scripts.
Food prices in Spain increase ahead of Christmas
So far in December 2024, food prices have risen by 6.1 percent, according to the latest data from the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU).
This is a significant increase given that at the same time last year prices had only risen by 4.3 percent.
Seafood, which is popular with Spaniards at Christmas, has increased the most. Percebes or goose barnacles have become particularly expensive increasing by 30 percent, as well as hake, which is 20 percent more expensive. The price of clams has also risen by 12 percent.
This increase in prices has already caused customers to change their purchasing habits as more people are looking for alternative festive foods such as stuffed meats and roasted pork.
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Google Maps helps unlock Spain murder mystery
Google Maps has guided Spanish investigators to resolve a year-long murder mystery by capturing the moment a person stowed a suspected corpse into a car.
Police in the northern region of Castilla y León began their probe in November 2023 when someone reported the disappearance of a male relative.
Officers arrested a woman who was the missing male's partner and another man who was her ex-partner in Soria province on November 12th, police said in a statement on Wednesday.
Investigators then raided the suspects' homes and found "images in a location application" where they "detected a vehicle that may have been used during the course of the crime", the statement said.
Spanish media circulated pictures of a screenshot of Google Maps' Street View from October 2024 showing a person dumping an object covered in a white shroud into a car boot in the village of Tajueco.
Police said a severely decomposed human torso believed to belong to the victim had been found this month in a cemetery in Soria province. El Pais daily reported that he was a 33-year-old Cuban.
A judge has ordered the suspects into custody and the investigation remains open.
Spanish PM's wife denies wrongdoing in graft probe hearing
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez denied wrongdoing in court testimony Wednesday to an investigation into alleged corruption, one of several legal cases connected to the minority left-wing government.
These cases are still all at the investigative stage: no one has yet been put on trial or even charged in these affairs.
Gómez has been under investigation since April for alleged corruption and influence peddling related to her time working at Madrid's Complutense University.
This was the first time Gómez, 49, had actually given testimony, having invoked her right to silence at a previous appearance in July.
"My client has always behaved in a correct manner, always in coordination with the Complutense University" for anyone to help them obtain public tenders, Gómez's lawyer, Antonio Camacho, told reporters outside the court after the hearing.
Gomez, who has worked in fundraising for years, had wanted to testify "from the very beginning of the proceedings, because she has nothing to hide", he said.
One in four homes in Spain don’t have heating
A total 24 percent of Spanish homes don’t have any heating system, according to a study published by Idealista based on the characteristics declared by advertisers during the second half of 2024.
Of the remaining 76 percent of homes that do have heating systems, around 16 have communal heating which is regulated in the whole building.
There is obviously a big difference between the number of homes that have heating in the north and south of the countries. In the Canary Islands for example, 90 percent of homes don't have central heating, while only two percent of the homes in Soria (Castilla y León) do not have heating, while Huesca and Álava it's three percent.
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