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Security Affairs newsletter Round 155 – News of the week

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· Hackers tried to cause a blast at a Saudi petrochemical plant
·      Russia-linked Sofacy APT targets an unnamed European Government agency
·      The Book : Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web
·      Unsecured AWS S3 bucket managed by Walmart jewelry partner exposes data of 1.3M customers
·      DHS and FBI accuse Russian Government of hacking US critical infrastructure
·      Experts discovered remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS
·      Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica stole its data and used it to influence US voters
·      Iran-linked group TEMP.Zagros now targets Asia and Middle East regions
·      Expedia-owned travel website Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in data breach
·      Frost Bank announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images
·      Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide FSB encryption keys
·      Uber Self-Driving Car struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona
·      A flaw in Ledger Crypto Wallets could allow to drain your cryptocurrency accounts. Fix it!
·      AMD will release the patches for the recently discovered flaws very soon
·      Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) hacked over the weekend
·      Windows Remote Assistance flaw could be exploited to steal sensitive files
·      Google is distributing more Meltdown and Spectre Patches for Chrome OS devices
·      TeleRAT, a new Android Trojan that uses Telegram for data exfiltration
·      Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica case: we made mistakes
·      A highly critical flaw affects Drupal 7 and 8 core, Drupal security updates expected on March 28th
· City of Atlanta paralyzed by a ransomware attack, is it SAMSAM?
·      GitHub Security Alerts are keeping developers code safer
·      Lone DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 is linked to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency
·      US imposes sanctions on nine Iranian hackers involved in a massive state-sponsored hacking scheme
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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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