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Security Affairs newsletter Round 115 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

·      Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5
·      Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period
·      US Defense is working on new multifactor authentication systems
·      Analyzing the attack landscape of the Dark Web. There is no honor among thieves.
·      Egypt blocks dozens of websites including ‘Medium without any official announcement
·      Experts spotted Industroyer ICS Malware and linked it to Ukraine Power Outage
·      MacRansom: The first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service
·      Emerging Matrix Banker Trojan is targeting banks in Latin America
·      ICS Companies Are Worried About Cybersecurity, But Are They Worried About the Right Things?
·      Israeli Intelligence spotted IS plans for Laptop Bomb
·      Weaponize a Mouse with WHID Injector for Fun & W00t
·      Adobe patches tens of vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions
·      Joint Technical Alert published by DHS and FBI warns of North Koreas Hidden Cobra APT
·      MACSPY – Remote Access Trojan as a service on Dark web
·      Microsoft patches two critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws that have been exploited in attacks
·      CashCrate Cash-for-Surveys Site breached, 6 Million accounts stolen
·      European police target anti-malware detection services and their customers
·      Thailand: police raided massive click farms with more 500k SIM cards
·      Victims of Jaff Ransomware now can decrypt their locked files for free thanks to Kaspersky
·      Wikileaks revealed CIA Cherry Blossom framework for hacking Wireless devices
·      A New malware dubbed dvmap for android was found and removed from play store
·      False Flag Attack on Multi Stage Delivery of Malware to Italian Organisations
·      New Code-injecting SOREBRECT Fileless Ransomware detected in the wild
·      Nmap 7.50 released with many significant improvements
·      Rapid7 report millions of endpoints exposed via SMB, Telnet Ports
·      Buckle Inc. confirmed credit card breach at its stores
·      Hacker pleaded guilty to stealing satellite data from US DoD
·      With this PHP rootkit you can take over a server hiding it in PHP server modules

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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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