Security Affairs newsletter Round 122 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Apple removed iOS VPN apps from Chinese App Store in compliance to censorship law · Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets · DEF CON 25 – BBC Micro:bit could be […]

August 6, 2017

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

· Apple removed iOS VPN apps from Chinese App Store in compliance to censorship law

· Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets

· DEF CON 25 – BBC Micro:bit could be used to hijack a drone

· Security Affairs newsletter Round 121 – News of the week

· DEF CON Voting Village – Hackers easily pwned US voting machines

· Hackers leaked data from alleged Mandiant FireEye ‘breach under #OpLeakTheAnalyst.

· Microsoft wont patch the 20-year-old SMBv1 SMBloris flaw disclosed at DEF CON conference

· OpenAI Gym – A machine learning system creates ‘invisible malware

· CopyFish Extension for Chrome Stolen And Updated With Trojan Adware

· HBO Hacked again, Game of Thrones Script Leaked on the Internet

· Pharmaceutical giant Merck confirmed NotPetya attack disrupted operations worldwide

· Security flaws affect TCUs used in BMW, Ford, Infiniti, and Nissan vehicles

· TOPransom: From eMail Attachment to Powning the Attackers Database

· ICS-CERT Issues Warning of CAN Bus Vulnerability

· Roughly 175,000 Chinese Internet Connected security cameras can be easily hacked

· The Svpeng Trojan continues to evolve, the last variant includes keylogger capabilities

· Former Bupa employee offered 1 million customer records for sale on dark web

· New TrickBot banking Trojan variant borrows spreading capabilities from Wannacry

· The bateleur backdoor is the new weapon in the Carbank gangs arsenal

· WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins was detained in Las Vegas after Def Con conference

· Wikileaks – CIA Dumbo tool allows agents to disable security cameras

· Black Hat 2017 – GitPwnd tool could be used by attackers to communicate with compromised devices via Git repositories

· Cisco fixes DoS, Authentication Bypass issues with its products and OSPF flaw

· Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Crypto weakening: Crypto War 2.0

· Microsoft Attempts To Fix Stuxnet For The Third Time

· UK malware researcher Marcus Hutchins accused of creating Kronos Trojan

· South Korean investigators confirmed National Intelligence Service interference in 2012 election

· Wannacry authors make a $143,000 withdraw from Bitcoin wallets, whilst the internet is distracted!

· WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to malware claims

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