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Security Affairs newsletter Round 224 – News of the week

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Emsisoft releases a second decryptor in a few days, this time for ZeroFucks ransomware
Hackers breach 62 US colleges by allegedly exploiting Ellucian Banner Web flaw
Twitter account of Scotland Yard hacked and posted bizarre messages
WizzAir informed customers it forced a password reset on their accounts
BlackBerry Cylance addresses AI-based antivirus engine bypass
Hackers published a list of allegedly phished Discord login credentials
Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens
New APT34 campaign uses LinkedIn to deliver fresh malware
WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach
A new ProFTPD vulnerability exposes servers to hack
CERT-Bund warns of a critical vulnerability in VLC player
Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities
Czech public radio says Huawei Czech Unit secretly collected data
Experts spotted P2P worm spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild
China-Linked APT15 group is using a previously undocumented backdoor
Computers at Indiana County infected with a ransomware
Emsisoft releases the third decryptor in a few days, this time for LooCipher ransomware
Malvertising campaign exploits recently disclosed WordPress Plugin flaws
US authorities have sentenced to prison 3 Romanian men who hacked US servers
Android Spyware Monokle, developed by Russian defense contractor, used in targeted attacks
FTC fines Facebook $5B and obliges it to adopt a new privacy framework
German firms BASF, Siemens, Henkel hit by cyber attacks
New variant of Linux Botnet WatchBog adds BlueKeep scanner
Stock trading service Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext for some users
A flaw in LibreOffice could allow the hack of your PC
Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen
Irish Silk Road admin sentenced to 78 months in federal prison
Johannesburg residents left in the dark after a ransomware attack at City Power
Hackers inject Magecart multi-gateway skimmer in fake Google domains
Marcus Hutchins sentenced to supervised release, no jail for the expert
More Ransom project has helped victims to save $108 million of ransom
No More Ransom project has helped victims to save $108 million of ransom
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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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