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Security Affairs newsletter Round 97 – News of the week

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
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Cyber crimes spike in England and Wales, says ONS
The author of the NeverQuest banking Trojan arrested in Spain
Security Affairs newsletter Round 96 – News of the week
Western Union agreed to pay $586 Million to settle fraud charges
OurMine crew hacked the New York Times Twitter video account
BankBot, an Android malware based on a source code leaked online
Mozilla Internet Health Report calls for more security and privacy
Roughly 200,000 Devices still affected by the Heartbleed vulnerability
A new loophole allowed an expert to delete any video on Facebook
A flaw in the Cisco WebEx Extension allows Remote Code Execution
Browser User Interface Security Threats
Techniques for the manipulation of malicious payloads to improve evasion
Symantec speculates Shamoon 2 attacks aided by Greenbug hackers
Saudi Arabia is warning organizations of a wave of Shamoon 2 attacks
Sage 2.0 Ransomware is spreading and demands a $2,000 Ransom
TorWorld helps you to manage a Tor node, promising an upcoming Tor-as-a-Service
Russia arrested Ruslan Stoyanov the head of the investigation unit at the Kaspersky in ‘Treason Probe
HummingWhale – HummingBad Android Malware returns even more dangerous than before
Several thousand Linux devices infected with the Linux.Proxy.10 Trojan
180,000 members of an underground ‘Upskirt porn website have been leaked online
Gmail will stop allowing JavaScript (.js) file attachments starting February 13, 2017
Possible Information warfare scenarios behind the Shamoon resurrection
Data breach notification website LeakedSource raided by feds
Hacker discovered security flaws in Amazon, Apple and Google epub services
The Nuke HTTP bot Malware offered for sale on a Dark Web forum
A hacker confirmed that President Trump Twitter account is linked to a private account
Europol coordinated operation against international cybercrime ring
Business Driven Security: The Case of Building an Advanced Security Operations Centre
WordPress 4.7.2 release addresses XSS, SQL Injection vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-3792 – Cisco TelePresence MCU affected by a Remote Code Execution issue

Once again thank you!

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Pierluigi Paganini

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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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