Security Affairs newsletter Round 95 – News of the week

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2017

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html

·        Iranian Group OilRig is back and delivers digitally signed malware
·        Security Affairs newsletter Round 94 – News of the week
·        Crooks target UK schools with ‘Department of Education ransomware
·        Recent power outages in Turkey were also caused by cyber attacks
·        French Minister Le Drian on cyber espionage: France is not immune, ready to hack back
·        ESEA data breach, 1.5 million gamers records leaked
·        Security Researcher hacks “Anti Tracking & Pro Privacy” Brave Browser
·        Number of MongoDB ransom attacks peaked 27,000 in a day
·        Hello Kitty database leaked online, 3.3 million fans affected
·        CVE-2016-7200 & CVE-2016-7201 Edge flaws added to the Sundown Exploit Kit
·        The Los Angeles Community College District paid a $28,000 ransom to decrypt its files
·        A Second variant of Shamoon 2 targets virtualization products
·        ShadowBrokers offers for sale the stolen NSA Windows Hacking Tools
·        Juniper SRX firewalls open a root-level account due to a flaw
·        Thousands of unpatched Magento shops hacked in the last two years
·        Spora Ransomware allows victims to pay for immunity from future attacks
·        In 2016, these are the four ways how bots altered history
·        EyePyramid – Police arrests two for hacking into emails of politicians, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and masons
·        Israeli mobile phone data extraction company Cellebrite was hacked
·        The ISC issued updates for 4 High severity DoS flaws in BIND
·        Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign
·        WordPress 4.7.1 released, patches eight vulnerabilities and 62 bugs
·        ShadowBrokers exits releasing another arsenal of tools to hack Windows
·        @Kapustkiy is back and hacked the Government of Venezuela
·        WhatsApp backdoor? What is wrong in the last claims?
·        Hackers that hit MongoDB installs now switch on exposed Elasticsearch clusters

Once again thank you!

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Newsletter)



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