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Security Affairs newsletter Round 141 – News of the week

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·      National Institute of Standards and Technology releases a second Draft of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 140 – News of the week
·      Severe flaws in most popular programming languages could expose to hack any secure application built on top of them
·      10 Biggest Cyber Espionage Cases
·      Dark Web – The median price range for Android ransomware kits hits $200
·      Microsoft accidentally exposed Dynamics 365 TLS certificates exposing sandbox environments to MiTM attacks
·      MoneyTaker group: Group-IB uncovered a cyber gang attacking banks in the USA and Russia
·      Vietnamese hacker stole security details and building plans from an Australian airport
·      A collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text leaked credentials is available online
·      Google Project Zero white hacker reveals Apple jailbreak exploit
·      Smart Shield Detector allows thieves to discover if the ATM is protected by anti-skimming technology
·      The OceanLotus MacOS Backdoor Transforms into HiddenLotus with a Slick UNICODE Trick
·      A banking Trojan targeting the Polish banks was found in Google Play
·      Adobe Patch Tuesday only addressed a moderate severity regression issue affecting Flash Player
·      December Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 19 Critical browser issues
·      ISIS & Al Qaeda: What’s Coming Down the Line for the U.S. in 2018
·      ROBOT Attack: RSA TLS crypto attack worked against Facebook, PayPal, and tens of 100 top domains
·      Experts disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit
·      FortiClient improper access control exposes users VPN credentials
·      New Triton malware detected in attacks against a Critical Infrastructure operator
·      Trump signed a bill prohibiting the use of Kaspersky Lab product and services
·      US DoJ charges 3 Men with developing and running the Mirai Botnet
·      Avast releases open sources Machine-Code Decompiler (RetDec) to fight malware
·      Germany – Court rules against foreign intelligence agency (BND) surveillance
·      Lazarus APT Group targets a London cryptocurrency company
·      The cybersecurity firm Fox-IT disclosed a security breach that affected its infrastructure
·      US Military wants cyber warriors along with soldiers on the Battlefield
·      19 Million California Voter records held for ransom attack on a MongoDB instance
·      Pre-Installed Keeper Password Manager on Windows 10 exposes systems to passwords stealing
·      Triton malware was developed by Iran and used to target Saudi Arabia

 

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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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