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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

Security Affairs

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Spyware in the IoT – the Biggest Privacy Threat This Year

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This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 269

Security Affairs

Maze ransomware gang hacked M&A firm Threadstone Advisors LLP Ransomware attack disrupts operations at Australian beverage company Lion Tech firms suspend use of ‘biased facial recognition technology Accessories giant Claires is the victim of a Magecart attack, credit card data exposed Black Kingdom ransomware operators exploit Pulse VPN flaws (..)

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 350

Security Affairs

from the Lympo NTF platform. from the Lympo NTF platform. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 240

Security Affairs

Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. Tracking Iran-linked APT33 group via its own VPN networks. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. New TA2101 threat actor poses as government agencies to distribute malware.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 340

Security Affairs

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 237

Security Affairs

malware to control Microsoft SQL Servers. NordVPN, TorGuard, and VikingVPN VPN providers disclose security breaches. Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit could be used to run malware on Win PCs. Swedish Government grants police the use of spyware against violent crime suspects. Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0

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