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Security Affairs newsletter Round 83 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog
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The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products
US is thinking of a possible cyber strike against the Kremlin
Security Affairs newsletter Round 82 – News of the week
Symantec observed a surge of spam emails using malicious WSF files
CryPy ransomware uses a unique Key for each encrypted file
Reading the ‘High Crime Trends 2016 Report from Group-IB
UK Police purchased IMSI-catcher technology for mobile surveillance
The new TrickBot Banking Trojan seems to have been developed by Dyre authors
NRSC hack – financial data of donors were sent to a Russian domain
Shadow Brokers launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise 10,000 bitcoins
Security audit reveals critical flaws in VeraCrypt, promptly fixed with a new release
Crooks exploit a zero-day in WordPress eCommerce Plugin to upload a backdoor
British banks downplay security breaches
The ‘Sin Card: How criminals unlocked a stolen iPhone 6S
Ops also the Trump Organization uses insecure e-mail servers
Magento card-swiping malware hides stolen card data in legitimate images
Political Cyberattacks: Senior Turkish Government Officials Affected by Advanced Malware
SQL Injection zero-day in component ja-k2-filter-and-search of Joomla
Ecuador confirms it cut Assange Internet due to US Election leaks
Czech police arrested a Russian hacker alleged involved in 2012 LinkedIn hack
Experts devised a method to capture keystrokes during Skype calls
Flaw in Intel CPUs could allow to bypass ASLR defense
FruityArmor APT exploited Windows Zero-Day flaws in attacks in the wild
Weebly data breach affected more than 43 million customers
The new Dirty COW Linux Kernel Exploit already used in attacks in the wild
Cyber Criminal can easily get access to your YesBank Internet Banking using stolen Debit/Credit Card Number and PIN
US contractor stole an astonishing quantity of data, including Equation Group tools
US users were not able to reach Twitter and other sites due to DDoS on Dyn DNS Service
Chinese hackers targeted officials visiting the USS Ronald Reagan vessel
Massive DDoS attack against Dyn DNS service, how and why
NewWorldHacking and Anonymous behind massive DDoS attack on Dyn DNS service
Indian Banks fear a security breach that affected up to 3.25 million cards
NewWorldHackers and Anonymous behind massive DDoS attack on Dyn DNS service

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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”.

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