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Security Affairs newsletter Round 156 – News of the week

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·      A new massive cryptomining campaign target Linux servers exploiting old flaw
·      The City of San Diego is suing the Experian credit agency for 2013 security breach
·      Thousands of etcd installs leak 750MB worth of passwords and keys
·      Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden
·      Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole 1 billion from banks
·      Reddit banned the biggest Darknet markets subreddit /R/DarkNetmarkets
·      The Internet Engineering Task Force has finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3
·      BranchScope is a new side-channel attack method against Intel chip
·      Experts uncovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom Site exploiting CVE-2018-4878 flaw
·      GoScanSSH Malware spread avoiding Government and Military networks
·      Grey Heron, the new Co in the surveillance industry that promises to spy on Signal and Telegram
·      A flaw in the iOS camera QR code URL parser could expose users to attacks
·      Meltdown security patches issued by Microsoft exposed to severe attacks
·      New ThreadKit exploit builder used to spread banking Trojan and RATs
·      VPN leaks users IPs via WebRTC. Ive tested seventy VPN providers and 16 of them leaks users IPs via WebRTC (23%)
·      Boeing production plant infected with WannaCry ransomware
·      CISCO addresses two critical remote code execution flaws in IOS XE operating system
·      Drupal finally addressed the critical CVE-2018-7600 Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability
·      Hackers took down Baltimore 911 system during the weekend
·      Ensuring best website security through SSL Certificate updates.
·      European police agencies coordinated by Europol arrested 20 people for Spear Phishing scam
·      Systems at a Power Company in India infected by a ransomware
·      The latest variant of the Panda Banker Trojan target Japan
·      Under Armour data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal users
·      Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2018 has arrived
·      Fauxpersky Keylogger masqueraded as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreads via USB drives
·      Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users private data, messages, locations
·      Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin was extradited to the United States
·      Tens of thousands of misconfigured Django apps leak sensitive data

 

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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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