Security Affairs newsletter Round 50 – News of the week

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CTB-Locker for Websites is spreading in the wild

German authorities approve the use of home-made Federal Trojan

Security Affairs newsletter Round 49 – News of the week

A DHS report confirms the use of BlackEnergy in the Ukrainian outage, still unknown its role

The new FighterPOS PoS Malware implements worm capabilities

A journalist has been hacked on a plane while writing an Apple-FBI story

Chinese ISPs are redirecting users legitimate traffic to malicious sites/ads

Using the Microsoft EMET security tool to hack itself

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, a $35 MicroComputer is arrived

European police corps arrested operators behind darknets offering illegal products and services

New HackingTeam OS X RCS spyware in the wild, who is behind the threat?

Two Years to General Data Protection Regulation Compliance

Waiting for a court ruling, a New York Judge rejected FBI request to unlock an iPhone

Brazilian police arrested Facebook Vice President for Latin America

33 percent of all HTTPS websites open to DROWN attack

DarkHotel hackers are back targeting Chinese Telecom

US DoD invites a restricted number of hackers to Hack the Pentagon

French Gov could fine Apple and Google €1m unless they hack mobile devices

RSA Conference Badge Scanning App has a default password hardcoded

$17 smartwatch includes a backdoor in the pairing app

US starts cyber operations against the ISIL in Mosul

Which are most used passwords in opportunistic criminal attacks?

Take note, next week update Adobe Reader and Acrobat to fix critical flaws

A day attack with DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage

Real pirates used hacking techniques to raid a shipping company

New exploit steals secret cryptographic keys from mobile devices

Expert revealed how to hack professional drones used also by police

SIM swap fraud cases force bank to improve security

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