Security Affairs newsletter Round 117 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · SamSam ransomware attacks increase and crooks demand higher ransom · Security Affairs newsletter Round 116 – News of the week · UK Parliament shut down external access to email accounts after cyberattack · Company fired an […]

July 2, 2017

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

· SamSam ransomware attacks increase and crooks demand higher ransom

· Security Affairs newsletter Round 116 – News of the week

· UK Parliament shut down external access to email accounts after cyberattack

· Company fired an employee, he shut down water utility providers networks in 5 cities

· Google Hacker found a new way to bypass Microsoft Windows Defender

· Pro-ISIS group defaced US Government websites in 3 states

· Reading the 2016 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

· A new massive attack allegedly based on Petwrap #ransomware hits organizations in several states

· A new massive attack allegedly based on Petwrap ransomware hits organizations in several states

· Anthem agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach

· Human error is the root cause of password reset email sent to AA customers

· Russian Gov is threatening to ban Telegram because it refused to comply data protection laws

· Experts found a critical remote buffer overflow vulnerability in Skype

· Petwrap Ransomware massive attack – 24 hours later

· Shifr RaaS lets create a simple ransomware with just 3 steps

· The Dark Art of Encryption

· Wikileaks – The Elsa malware allows CIA to locate users via WiFi-enabled devices

· A critical flaw allows hacking Linux machines with just a malicious DNS Response

· Notpetya – The Petya variant used in the massive attack is a wiper disguised by a ransomware

· Shadow Brokers sent out first round of exploits and threaten to dox former NSA hacker

· UK.gov accidental data leak. Users details left publicly accessible on a third-party site

· 8tracks data leak exposed 18 million user accounts

· Cisco IOS Software is affected by RCE flaws that could allow full hack of the devices

· Microsoft issued Security fix for important flaw in Azure Active Directory Connect

· NotPetya – Ukraine secret service announces a joint investigation with Europol, FBI, and NCA

· Researcher released Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner

· SQL Injection flaw in WordPress Plugin WP Statistics potentially exposed 300,000+ Sites

· Wikileaks – CIA developed OutlawCountry Malware to hack Linux systems

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