Security Affairs newsletter Round 120 – News of the week

July 23, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini


A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

·      Crooks used Infrared insert skimmers in a recent wave of ATM attacks
·      Did you receive a WhatsApp subscription ending email or text? Watch out!
·      Hackshit PhaaS platform, even more easy to power Phishing campaigns
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·      Ashley Madison agrees to an $11.2 Million settlement for a 2015 massive data breach
·      For the second time in the year, experts found a flaw in Cisco WebEx Extension
·      Russian nation-state actors blamed for cyber attacks against Irish energy networks
·      SMS Phishing induces victims to photograph its own token card
·      Whats new after the AlphaBay Market Shutdown in the darkweb?
·      Android Backdoor GhostCtrl can spy on victims and take over Windows Systems
·      Hacker steals $7 Million in Ethereum from CoinDash in just 3 minutes
·      Lithuania to extradite the man responsible for 100M email scam against Google and Facebook
·      Two CryptoMix Ransomware variants emerged in a few days
·      IntelliAV: Toward the Feasibility of Building Intelligent Anti-Malware on Android Devices
·      Oracle July 2017 Critical Patch Update addresses record-breaking 308 issues
·      SHELLBIND IoT malware targets NAS devices exploiting SambaCry flaw
·      Wikileaks: CIA tasked Raytheon for analyzing TTPs used by threat actors in the wild
·      A bug in Gnome pic parser can be exploited to run malicious VBScripts
·      Black Hat is coming and with it a good reason to update your Broadcom-based devices
·      DDoS Tools availability Online, a worrisome trend
·      How to hack a Segway Ninebot miniPRO hoverboard in 20 seconds
·      Huge blow to the criminal underground in the dark web, authorities shut down AlphaBay and Hansa black marketplaces
·      Tor launches Bug Bounty Program, hackers can earn between $2,000 and $4,000 for high severity flaws
·      DarkHotel APT group leverages new methods to target politicians
·      Microsoft sued Fancy Bear to gain control of the domains used in the cyber espionage campaigns
·      Modified versions of Nukebot Trojan spotted in wild after code leak
·      A Russian man involved in the development and maintenance of Citadel was sentenced to five years in prison
·      Lloyds of London: A massive cyber attack could cause an average of $53 billion of economic losses
·      Russias Duma has approved the bill to prohibit tools used to surf outlawed websites
·      Stantinko botnet was undetected for at least 5 years while infecting half a million systems

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Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.





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