Security Affairs newsletter Round 174 – News of the week

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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·      Mysterious snail mail from China sent to US agencies includes Malware-Laden CD
·      Security bug in Swann IoT Camera allowed to access video feeds
·      Underminer Exploit Kit spreading Bootkits and cryptocurrency miners
·      FELIXROOT Backdoor is back in a new fresh spam campaign
·      KICKICO security breach – hackers stole over $7.7 million worth of KICK tokens
·      Tens of flaws in Samsung SmartThings Hub expose smart home to attack
·      Titan Security Keys- Google announced USB-based FIDO U2F Keys
·      A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware appeared in the wild
·      Dixons Carphone Data Breach discovered in June affected 10 Million customers
·      Fileless PowerGhost cryptocurrency miner leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread
·      Ransomware attack against COSCO spread beyond its US network to Americas
·      Facebook reported and blocked attempts to influence campaign ahead of midterms US elections
·      Hundreds of apps removed from Google Play store because were carrying Windows malware
·      Reddit discloses a data breach, a hacker accessed user data
·      SamSam Ransomware operators earned more than US$5.9 Million since late 2015
·      Ten years ago someone breached into a server of the Yale University
·      Alleged Iran-linked APT group RASPITE targets US electric utilities
·      Amnesty International employee targeted with NSO group surveillance malware
·      Analyzing the Telegram-based Android remote access trojan HeroRAT
·      Three members of FIN7 (Carbanak) gang charged with stealing 15 million credit cards
·      CVE-2018-14773 Symfony Flaw expose Drupal websites to hack
·      Google introduced G Suite alerts for state-sponsored attacks
·      Hundreds of thousands MikroTik Routers involved in massive Coinhive cryptomining campaign
·      Industrial Sector targeted in surgical spear-phishing attacks
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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Newsletter)

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