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Security Affairs newsletter Round 143 – News of the week

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·      Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant
·      Facebooks photo tagging system now looks for users in photos theyre not tagged in
·      Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests of the Lazarus APT Group
·      Experts discovered a flaw in GoAhead that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices
·      Schneider Electric Patches Flaws in Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product
·      ATMs operated by a Russian Bank could be hacked by pressing five times the ‘Shift key
·      The spike in Bitcoin price is making it a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground
·      Three fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed from the official Google Play
·      For the second year in a row, 123456 was the top password found in data dumps in 2017
·      Mozilla patches five issues in Thunderbird, including a critical flaw
·      The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack
·      A Kernel Exploit for Sony PS4 Firmware 4.05 is available online
·      Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension
·      Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine
·      The Twitter account of the popular security expert John McAfee was hacked
·      Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach
·      Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online
·      Info Stealing – The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli spotted a new operation in the wild
·      Samsung Android Browser is affected by a critical SOP bypass issue, a Metasploit exploit code is available
·      Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year
·      A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police in a swatting attack
·      Chinese censorship – authorities have shut down 13,000 websites since 2015
·      Its a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies

 

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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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