Security Affairs newsletter Round 108 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog
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·      Facebook dismantled a huge spam campaign leveraging bogus accounts

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·      Callisto APT Group exploited Hacking Team surveillance tools to hack Government targets

·      Flaws in the Bosch Drivelog Connector dongle could allow hackers to halt the engine

·      Terror EK rising in the threat landscape while Sundown EK drops

·      Microsoft biannual transparency report – US foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled

·      The failure of the missile launch by North Korea may have been caused by US cyber attack

·      Windows attacks via CVE-2017-0199 – Practical exploitation! (PoC)

·      Who is offering the CradleCore Ransomware as source code?

·      The alleged link between the Shadow Brokers data leak and the Stuxnet cyber weapon

·      Moving threat landscape: The reality beyond the cyberwarfare

·      Karmen Ransomware, a cheap RaaS service that implements anti-analysis features

·      InterContinental Hotels Group, the international hotel chain confirmed a second credit card breach

·      Homograph Phishing Attacks are almost impossible to detect on major browsers

·      Critical vulnerability in Drupal References Module opens 120,000 Sites to hack

·      Oracle patch update for April 2017 also fixed Struts and Shadow Brokers exploits

·      Symantec is monitoring the Hajime IoT malware, is it the work of vigilante hacker?

·      Vulnerabilities in Linksys routers allow attackers to hijack dozens of models

·      Exfiltrating data from laptop and smartphones via ambient light sensors

·      Introduction to the NIST CyberSecurity Framewor for a Landscape of Cyber Menaces

·      Anatomy of Cybercriminal Communications: Why do crooks prefer Skype

·      The RawPOS PoS Malware also scans for drivers license data

·      The Stuxnet vulnerability is still one of the most exploited flaws in the wild by hackers

·      WikiLeaks published the user guide for the CIA Weeping Angel, the Samsung Smart TV Hacking Tool

·      Chinese APTs targeted the South Korean THAAD anti-missile systems

·      Hackers compromised thousands of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools DOUBLEPULSAR and ETERNALBLUE

·      US Court sentenced Russian hacker Roman Seleznev to 27 years in jail for hacking

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