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
- The mosque shooter exploited the power of the Internet + The report
- Israeli spy firm suspected of accessing global telecoms via Channel Islands
- Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world
- FBI & Interpol disrupt Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding marketplace
- More annoying than crippling: Joker’s Stash takedown is temporary
- German secure email provider Tutanota forced to monitor an account, after regional court ruling
- FSB team of chemical weapon experts implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok poisoning
For the more technical
- WordPress plugin with 5 million installs has a critical vulnerability
- Third party browser extensions for Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo and others infected with malware
- Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems (PDF)
- Spear phishing: Top threats and trends (PDF)
- Widespread ‘doc(s) delivery’ spear-phishing campaign targets enterprises with hundreds of compromised accounts
- Highly evasive attacker leverages SolarWinds supply chain to compromise multiple global victims with SUNBURST backdoor
- A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response
- Microsoft confirms it was also breached in recent SolarWinds supply chain hack
- Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
- Operation SignSight: Supply‑chain attack against a certification authority in Southeast Asia
- New spyware used by sextortionists to blackmail iOS and Android users
- Massive fraud operation facilitated by evil mobile emulator farms
- Increase in attack: SocGholish
- Recent ransomware wave targeting Israel linked to Iranian threat actors
- Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
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