Security Affairs newsletter Round 186 – News of the week

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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·      DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
·      Hackers breached into system that interacts with HealthCare.gov
·      WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS
·      FreeRTOS flaws expose millions of IoT devices to cyber attacks
·      Israel Defense Forces were searching systems to spy on private social media messages
·      MPlayer and VLC media player affected by critical flaw CVE-2018-4013
·      NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023
·      Saudi Future Investment Initiative website defaced by the hackers
·      For the first time Japanese commission ordered Facebook to improve security
·      Message Decryption Key for Signal Desktop application stored in plain text
·      The fix for the DOM-based XSS in Branch.io introduced a new XSS flaw
·      The new Azorult 3.3 is available in the cybercrime underground market
·      To Secure Medical Devices, the FDA Turns to Ethical Hackers
·      Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape
·      Magecart hackers change tactic and target vulnerable Magento extensions
·      Russian Government-owned research institute linked to Triton attacks
·      SandboxEscaper expert is back and disclosed a new Windows Zero-Day
·      Cathay Pacific data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers
·      Experts discovered a severe command injection flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop
·      Experts released a free Decryption Tool for GandCrab ransomware
·      Google requires 2 years of Android security updates for popular devices
·      UK ICO fines Facebook with maximum for Cambridge Analytica scandal
·      British Airways: additional 185,000 passengers may have been affected
·      CVE-2018-14665 privilege escalation flaw affects popular Linux distros
·      A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service
·      Experts presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol
·      Apple and Samsung fined millions for “planned obsolescence” of old smartphones
·      A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service
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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Newsletter)

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