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Security Affairs newsletter Round 246

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Experts warn of Greta Thunberg-themed Emotet malware campaign
Former contractor sentenced to 10 months in prison for hacking airline Jet2
UK authorities sentenced hacker who blackmailed Apple for $100,000
Champagne Bakery Cafe and Islands burger chain disclose payment card breaches
CVE-2019-19781 Citrix flaw exposes 80,000 companies at risk
Lithuanian man sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing $120 Million From Google, Facebook
Members of GozNym gang sentenced for stealing $100 Million
Op Wocao – China-linked APT20 was able to bypass 2FA
RavnAir Alaska airline canceled some flights following a cyber attack
FBI flash alert warns of LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware attacks
NYT report states that ToTok app is a government spy tool.
RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure
A flaw in Twitter App for Android could have been exploited to take over the account
Actors behind Maze ransomware release files stolen from City of Pensacola
Entercom Radio Network hit by a second cyber attack in a few months
New Mozi P2P Botnet targets Netgear, D-Link, Huawei routers
Experts warn of 5 new flaws in Google Chrome dubbed Magellan 2.0
Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders
More than 100 Chinese nationals arrested in Nepal over suspected cyber scam
NVIDIA patches CVE-2019-5702 high-severity flaw in GeForce Experience
Thai Officials confirmed the hack of prison surveillance cameras and the video broadcast
Top cybersecurity Predictions for 2020
Windows systems at Maastricht University were infected with a ransomware
173 Million Zynga accounts were impacted in the September hack
A Ryuk Ransomware attack took down a US maritime facility
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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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