Security Affairs newsletter Round 39 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs


LATENTBOT, one the highly obfuscated backdoor in the wild
Torrent websites infected 12 million Internet users per month
Iranian Government says Daesh doesn’t pose a threat to Iran
Gift cards and return merchandise fraud scheme
Is Vuvuzela the most secure SMS text messaging system?
European Space Agency domains hacked by Anonymous
Cyber Terrorists Can Get Their Hands on UK Infrastructure, Like the Net or Electricity
Inside the German cybercriminal underground
Hacker claims Sony PlayStation 4 Jailbreak
FireEye Appliances affected by a critical flaw simply exploitable
Twitter warns victims of state-sponsored attacks
Joomla under attack due to a zero-day. Patch your CMS now!
GCHQ Gaffer database goes open source
Press backspace 28 times to hack a Linux PC with Grub2
Phantom Squad wants to take down Playstation network and Xbox Live on Christmas
A secret cellphone spying devices catalog leaked online
Unauthorized code found in Juniper’s firewall OS
Microsoft Outlook flaw opens the door to mailbomb attacks
Hackers trace ISIS Twitter accounts back to the UK govt
Instagram hacked! Hacker compromised the entire platform
Over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on Internet

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.