Security Affairs newsletter Round 160

Security Affairs newsletter Round 160 – News of the week

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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· Experts spotted spam campaigns delivering XTRAT and DUNIHI backdoors bundled with the Adwind RAT

· SunTrust unfaithful employee may have stolen data on 1.5 Million customers

· Unscrupulous crooks behind the RansSIRIA Ransomware try to exploit attentions on Syrian refugee crisis

· CVE-2018-0229 flaw in SAML implementation threatens Firepower, AnyConnect and ASA products

· Google Project Zero hacker discloses a Zero-Day in Windows Lockdown Policy

· Health Stream left exposed online a database containing contact data for roughly 10,000 medics

· Orangeworm cyber espionage group target Healthcare organizations worldwide

· Take These Steps to Secure Your WordPress Website Before Its Too Late

· BeatCoin – Researchers demonstrate how to steal Cold Wallet Keys from Air-Gapped PCs

· CSE Malware ZLab – Malware Analysis Report: The Bandios malware suite

· Kasperskys analysis of servers compromised by Energetic Bear shows the APT operates on behalf of others

· SAFERVPN CVE-2018-10308 VULNERABILITY, FROM DOS TO DEANONYMIZATION

· Do Not Disturb app will protect your device from evil maid attacks

· Expert devised a exploit for a Code Execution vulnerability in NVIDIA Tegra Chipsets

· Police shut down the biggest DDoS-for-hire service (webstresser.org) and arrested its administrators

· Portugal is the 21st country to join the NATO Cyber-Defence Centre

· CVE-2018-7602 – Drupal addressed a new vulnerability associated with Drupalgeddon2 flaw

· F-Secure experts devised a Master Key that unlocks millions of hotel rooms

· Hacking the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant to spy on unaware users

· Western Digital MY CLOUD EX2 storage devices leak files

· Dutch Police shut down the Anon-IB revenge porn forum

· Microsoft releases new software and microcode updates to address Spectre flaw (Variant 2).

· Necurs Spam Botnet operators adopt a new technique to avoid detection

· Rubella Macro Builder Crimeware Kit gains popularity on cybercrime underground

· European and US police hit the Islamic State propaganda machine

· Expert shows how to trigger blue-screen-of-death on Windows by triggering NTFS flaw

· How to use weaponized PDF documents to steal Windows credentials

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 160 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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