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Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

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·      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
·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 – News of the week
·      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

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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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