Security Affairs newsletter Round 240

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs

Bad News: AI and 5G Are Expected to Worsen Cybersecurity Risks
Boardriders and its subsidiarities QuikSilver and Billabong infected with ransomware
Major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP hit by ransomware attack
Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB
Australian Govt agency ACSC warns of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks
CERTrating a new Tool to evaluate CERT/CSIRT maturity level
ZoneAlarm forum site hack exposed data of thousands of users
Bugcrowd paid over $500,000 in bug bounty rewards in one week
Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve
Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure
Facebook is secretly using iPhones camera as users scroll their feed
Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex hit by ransomware
TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies
A flaw in PMx Driver can give hackers full access to a device
Adobe patch Tuesday updates addressed critical flaws in Media Encoder and Illustrator products
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates fix CVE-2019-1429 flaw exploited in the wild
New TSX Speculative Attack allows stealing sensitive data from latest Intel CPUs
Russian man Aleksei Burkov extradited for running online criminal marketplace
Canadian intelligence agencies CSE and CSIS are divided on Huawei 5G ban
CVE-2019-3648 flaw in all McAfee AV allows DLL Hijacking
Experts found privilege escalation issue in Symantec Endpoint Protection
Flaws in Qualcomm chips allows stealing private from devices
Tracking Iran-linked APT33 group via its own VPN networks
A new sophisticated JavaScript Skimmer dubbed Pipka used in the wild
DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison
New TA2101 threat actor poses as government agencies to distribute malware
The Australian Parliament was hacked earlier this year
Two men arrested for stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency with Sim Swapping
Checkra1n, a working iPhone Jailbreak, was released
WhatsApp flaw CVE-2019-11931 could be exploited to install spyware
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Pierluigi Paganini

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