Security Affairs newsletter Round 255

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2020

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

Facebook sues Namecheap to protect people from domain name fraud
Netgear fixes a critical RCE that could allow to takeover Flagship Nighthawk routers
New Coronavirus-themed malspam campaign delivers FormBook Malware
The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack
Australias privacy watchdog sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte was convicted of only minor charges
Nation-state actors are exploiting CVE-2020-0688 Microsoft Exchange server flaw
Revista Factum suffered week-long cyber attacks for denouncing corruption by the president of El Salvador
Sodinokibi Ransomware operators threaten to leak ‘dirty financial data of a company
FBI arrested a Russian citizen suspected to be the mastermind of Deer.io
Hackers use hackers spreading tainted hacking tools in long-running campaign
Microsoft accidentally reveals Wormable Win SMBv3 CVE-2020-0796 Flaw
Microsoft disrupted US-Based Infrastructure of the Necurs botnet
Microsoft warns of Human-Operated Ransomware as a growing threat to businesses
Avast disables the JavaScript engine component due to a severe issue
Bugs in Avast AntiTrack expose users to cyber attacks
Microsofts Patch Tuesday updates for March 2020 fix 115 issues
Office network at the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) breached
RCE in popular ThemeREX WordPress Plugin has been actively exploited
Card data stole from the Volusion security breach surfaces on the dark web
Crooks use weaponized coronavirus map to deliver malware
Experts disclose tens of flaws in Zyxel Cloud CNM SecuManager, includes dangerous backdoors
Hacking a network, using an ‘invisibility cloak – Is it that simple?
Microsoft fixes CVE-2020-0796, the SMBv3 wormable bug recently leaked
Talos found tens of dangerous flaws in WAGO Controllers
Cookiethief, the Android malware that hijacks Facebook accounts
European police arrested tens of members of two SIM Hijacking Gangs
Flaws in the Popup Builder WordPress plugin expose 100K+ websites to hack
Russia-Linked Turla APT uses new malware in watering hole attacks
State-sponsored hackers are launching Coronavirus-themed attacks
VMware fixes a critical bug in Workstation, Fusion that allows code execution on host From guest
A bug in Tor Browser allows execution of JavaScript even in Safest security level
One of the major COVID-19 testing laboratories in Czech hit by cyberattack
Slack bugs allowed take over victims accounts
Trump signed a bill to help small telecoms replace Huawei equipment

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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