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Security Affairs newsletter Round 154 – News of the week

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· Governments rely on Sandvine network gear to deliver spyware and miners
·      Hacking Team is back … probably it never stopped its activity. Watch Out!
·      China-Linked APT15 used new backdoors in attack against UK Governments service provider
·      Cryptocurrency mining operations target Windows Server, Redis and Apache Solr servers online
·      Kaspersky – Sofacy ‘s campaigns overlap with other APT groups operations
·      The South America connection and the leadership on ATM Malware development
·      13 Vulnerabilities in Hanwha SmartCams Demonstrate Risks of Feature Complexity
·      A critical flaw in Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) affects all versions of Windows
·      MOSQUITO attack allows to exfiltrates data from Air-Gapped computers via leverage connected speakers
·      Samba fixed two critical vulnerabilities, update your version as soon as possible
·      Study confirms the trade of code-signing certificates is a flourishing business
·      13 Critical flaws and exploitable backdoors found in various AMD chips
·      March 2018 SAP Security Patch Day addresses decade-old vulnerabilities
·      OceanLotus APT is very active, it used new Backdoor in recent campaigns
·      Whats new in Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for March 2018?
·      Experts discovered a new tiny Pos Malware dubbed Pinkkite
·      Qrypter RAT hits 243 organizations worldwide in February
·      The RottenSys botnet is already composed of nearly 5 million Android devices
·      VPN leaks affect 3 Major VPN vendors, only Hotspot Shield promptly fixed it
·      GandCrab ransomware evolves thanks to an AGILE development process
·      Hackers can elevate privileges by hacking into popular text editors
·      Hacking SAP CRM by chaining 2 vulnerabilities in SAP NetWeaver AS Java
·      Mossack Fonseca law firm shuts down operations 2 years after Panama Papers
·      Chinese APT Group TEMP.Periscope targets US Engineering and Maritime Industries
·      Hackers awarded $267,000 at Pwn2Own 2018, was far less than in the past editions
·      Popular Hacker Adrian Lamo, known for the case Chelsea Manning, is dead
·      VMware addresses a DoS flaw in Workstation and Fusion products
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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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