Security Affairs newsletter Round 124 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian IsraBye wiper spreads as a ransomware · Kenya opposition claims election results manipulated in cyber attack · MUGHTHESEC, a signed Mac adware that hijacks the victims browser for profit · Security Affairs newsletter […]

August 20, 2017

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

· Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian IsraBye wiper spreads as a ransomware

· Kenya opposition claims election results manipulated in cyber attack

· MUGHTHESEC, a signed Mac adware that hijacks the victims browser for profit

· Security Affairs newsletter Round 123 – News of the week

· North Korea-Linked Lazarus APT targets U.S. Defense contractors

· OpDomesticTerrorism – Anonymous takes down Charlottesville website after the incident

· PostgreSQL issues three security patches, apply them asap

· Rapid7 warns of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exposure for millions of endpoints

· CVE-2017-0199: Crooks exploit PowerPoint Slide Show files to deliver malware

· Google adds Anti-Phishing feature also to Gmail app for iOS

· The Disdain exploit kit appears in the threat landscape

· WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty

· Cerber Ransomware now includes a feature to avoid canary files anti-malware

· DitM Dog In The Middle – New Hacking Technique to Eavesdropping

· Faulty firmware OTA update bricked hundreds of LockState smart locks

· ShadowPad backdoor was spread in corporate networks through software update mechanism

· After Westminster attack, now Scottish parliament hit by brute-forcing attack

· Cyber Criminals Hijack Chrome Extensions and put 4.7 Million Users at Risk

· Drupal maintainers fix several access bypass vulnerabilities in Drupal 8

· NotPetya ransomware caused $300m losses to the shipping giant Maersk

· An unpatchable flaw in CAN protocol expose modern cars to hack

· Faketoken evolves and targets taxi booking apps to steal banking info

· Hacker published the decryption key for the Apple Secure Enclave security chip

· Misconfigured AWS S3 exposed 1.8 million US voter records

· Barcelona terrorist attack – Extremism, A Sea Change In Tactics

· The Ukrainian central bank warned of new NotPetya-style massive attack risk

· Turla APT group adapts KopiLuwak backdoor for use in G20-themed attack

· US military is working on the creation of separate unified cyber warfare command

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