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Security Affairs newsletter Round 121 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

·      Expert exploited an unrestricted File Upload flaw in a PayPal Server to remotely execute code
·      Hacker BestBuy pleads guilty to hijacking more than 900k Deutsche Telekom routers
·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 120 – News of the week
·      Worst known governmental leak ever affected the Swedish Transport Agency. Homeland security at risk
·      EU digital chief Andrus Ansip announced its plans to improve cyber security in EU
·      New Debian 9.1 release includes 26 security fixes for 55 packages
·      SLocker decompiled code leaked online for free, a gift for crooks and hackers
·      SLocker source code leaked online for free, a gift for crooks and hackers
·      Spring Dragon APT used more than 600 Malware samples in different attacks
·      The UK continues to grant the export of surveillance equipment to countries like Turkey
·      32M is about to become the first in the US to implant a microchip to employees volunteers
·      Experts detailed the new Operation Wilted Tulip campaign of the CopyKittens APT
·      Fruitfly macOS and OS X backdoor remained undetected for years
·      Veritaseum – Hacker Steals $8.4 Million in Ethereum, for the second time during the ICO
·      Chinese Police dismantled the behind the Fireball adware campaign that infected more than 250 Million PCs
·      CrowdStrike presented the fastest and largest cybersecurity search engine
·      New CowerSnail Windows Backdoor linked to SHELLBIND SambaCry Linux Malware
·      UniCredit bank breach – Data of 400,000 loan applicants exposed due to the hack of a partner
·      DEF CON Talk Will Expose The Latest SMB Vulnerability SMBLoris
·      Experts found critical flaws in Diebold Opteva ATM that allow to vend notes from the machine
·      Google experts blocked a new targeted malware family, the Lipizzan spyware
·      Greek police arrested a man running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the Bitcoin
·      BLACK HAT USA – Hackers turn car washing machines in a mortal trap
·      Critical Vulnerabilities discovered in Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs) used at Power Plants and Airports
·      Malware experts at ESET released a free tool for ICS Malware analysis
·      Wikileaks Vault 7 – Imperial projects revealed the 3 hacking tools Achilles, SeaPea and Aeris
·      BlackHat 2017 – Positive Technologies researcher claims ApplePay vulnerable to two distinct attacks
·      Chinese researchers from Tencent hacked a Tesla model once again
·      Experts spotted Triada Trojan in firmware of low-cost Android smartphones

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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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