Security Affairs newsletter Round 109 – 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 http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html · Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black · Lenovo […]

May 7, 2017

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
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html

· Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black

· Lenovo warns of IBM Storwize shipped with infected initialization USB drives

· Poorly designed apps leave millions of phones at risk of open port attack

· Turkey banned Wikipedia because its content web contents that represents a threat to national security

· Graph theory applied to a portion of the Dark Web shows it a set of largely isolated dark silos

· NATO Locked Shields 2017, worlds largest cyber defence exercise just ended

· WHID Injector: How to Bring HID Attacks to the Next Level

· Yahoo awarded $7,000 a bug hunter for Flickr account hijacking vulnerability

· A critical RCE flaw in Intel Management Engine affects Intel enterprise PCs dates back 9 years

· Kaspersky Lab APT Trends report, Q1 2017 – From Lazarus APT to StoneDrill

· Malware Hunter, the project developed by Shodan and Recorded Future to find C&C Servers

· NSA announces it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts and other internet communications

· Ourmine hackers breached into the Unity Forum

· TrickBot is a rising threat, the banking Trojan now targets Private Banking

· Chinese TA459 APT exploits CVE-2017-0199 flaw to target Financial firms

· Information Security Practices of Aadhaar – 135 Million Indian government payment card details leaked

· Number of WordPress Attacks powered by compromised routers is rapidly dropping

· The OSX.Dok dropper spotted installing the new Bella backdoor

· Travel Tech Giant Sabre suffered a Data Breach, traveler data potentially at risk

· Carbanak gang makes the headlines again, hackers refined intrusion tactics

· New insidious Google Docs phishing scheme is rapidly spreading on the web

· NSA Cyber Weapons installed in High Profile Targets in Greece

· Security researcher disclosed a WordPress Password Reset Vulnerability

· The Snake APT Group is preparing its offensive against high-profile Mac users

· Threat actors leverage the KONNI Malware to target organizations linked to North Korea

· WikiLeaks leaked documents that detail the Archimedes tool used by the CIA in MitM attacks

· Cisco fixes a critical flaw in CISCO CVR100W Wireless-N VPN Small Business Routers

· Macron campaign suffered a huge hacking attack 48 hours before French vote

· Netrepser Cyber espionage campaign compromised hundreds of Government organizations worldwide

· The Bondnet botnet- From China with Love

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