Security Affairs newsletter Round 149

Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

Once again thank you!

· GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground

· More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails

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· UK Government Advices Industry Sectors To Comply With Guidance Or Pay $17 Million Fine

· Almost all WordPress websites could be taken down due to unpatched CVE-2018-6389 DoS flaw

· Cisco and FireEye Pointing Finger at North Korea Hacking Group For Adobe Flash 0-Day In The Wild

· Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 5)

· Hacking Amazon Key – Hacker shows how to access a locked door after the delivery

· Leaked memo suggest NSA and US Army compromised Tor, I2P, VPNs and want to unmask Monero users

· Abusing X.509 Digital Certificates to establish a covert data exchange channel

· ADB.Miner, the Android mining botnet that targets devices with ADB interface open

· Crime ring linked to Luminosity RAT dismantled by an international law enforcement operation

· Popular British hacktivist Lauri Love will not be extradited to US, UK Court Ruled

· 9 Tips to Prevent WordPress Hacks in this Dangerous Digital World

· Adobe rolled out an emergency patch that fixed CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploited by North Korea

· Automated Hacking Tool Autosploit Cause Concerns Over Mass Exploitation

· Hackers can remotely access adult sex toys compromising at least 50.000 users

· Researchers ported the NSA EternalSynergy, EternalRomance, and EternalChampion to Metasploit

· For the second time CISCO issues security patch to fix a critical vulnerability in CISCO ASA

· Intel releases new Spectre security updates, currently only for Skylake chips

· Joomla 3.8.4 release addresses three XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities

· Meet PinME, A Brand New Attack To Track Smartphones With GPS Turned Off.

· US authorities dismantled the global cyber theft ring known as Infraud Organization

· A Flaw in Hotspot Shield VPN From AnchorFree Can Expose Users Locations

· fail0verflow hackers found an unpatchable flaw in Nintendo Switch bootROM and runs Linux OS

· Researcher found multiple vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Routers, update them now!

· Swisscom data breach Hits 800,000 Customers, 10% of Swiss population

· The source code of the Apple iOS iBoot Bootloader leaked online

· UDPOS PoS malware exfiltrates credit card data DNS queries

· Lenovo patches critical flaws that affect Broadcoms chipsets in dozens of Lenovo ThinkPad

· Online Auction Safety Tips for Buyers and Sellers

· VMware releases temporary mitigations for Meltdown and Spectre flaws

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Newsletter)

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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Cisco fixed critical ISE flaws allowing Root-level remote code execution

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