Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Protecting users from government-backed hacking and disinformation
- Russia’s espionage in Estonia: A quantitative analysis of convictions (PDF)
- How much did Russian spy agencies rely on Bitcoin? New hints in leaked recordings
- The fall and rise of a spyware empire
- It’s way too easy to get a .gov domain name
- Ryuk ransomware forces Prosegur security firm to shut down network
- How the NYPD’s fingerprint database got shut down by a computer virus
- Hacker stole unreleased music and then tried to frame someone else
- Russian hacker who used NeverQuest malware to steal money sentenced to four years in prison
- 79 arrested in worldwide crackdown on airline fraud
For the more technical
- XSS in GMail’s AMP4Email via DOM Clobbering
- Test of free antivirus according to CheckLab.pl
- Kaspersky: The art of keeping your keys under the door mat
- FortiGuard XOR encryption in multiple Fortinet products
- ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking
- HPE tells users to patch SSDs to prevent failure after 32,768 hours of operation
- Security flaw in Truecaller
- Apache Solr vulnerable to remote code execution zero-day vulnerability
- Patched GIF processing vulnerability CVE-2019-11932 still afflicts multiple mobile apps
- SMS replacement is exposing users to text, call interception thanks to sloppy telecos
- New RCS technology exposes most mobile users to hacking
- Chinese children’s watch reveals thousands of children’s data
- RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide
- Stantinko botnet adds cryptomining to its pool of criminal activities
- IT threat evolution Q3 2019 + statistics
- Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat
- Exploit kits are slowly migrating toward fileless attacks
- Spam and phishing in Q3 2019
- International crackdown on RAT spyware which takes total control of victims’ PCs
- Kilos: The Dark Web’s newest – and most extensive – search engine
- Unwanted notifications in browser
- Hidden cam above Bluetooth pump skimmer
- iOS device acquisition with checkra1n jailbreak
- Kali Linux 2019.4 release
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