IT Security Weekend Catch Up – February 17, 2017

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

1. Ukraine charges Russia with new cyberattacks
2. Snowden fightng for reporters’ security and privacy
3. Tracking users in London’s Undergroud
4. A very well prepared campaign against activists in Quatar and Nepal
5. About a man who bought all the tickets

For the more technical

1. Technical analysis of the attack on Polish banks by:
   1. ESET
   2. BAE
   3. Cyber4Sight
   4. Symantec
2. Bypassing free hotspot limitations
3. RiseUp starts to encrypt email
4. Vulnerabilities in mobile apps for connected cars
5. Cable modem producer’s private key leak 
6. An ex-employee remotely damaged ICS systems
7. Multiple vulnerabilities in QNAP QTS 4.2
8. Xen Project suggests limiting bug disclosure
9. Using Signal pseudonymously
10. Changes and new functions in Signal
11. Analysis of an attack on Israeli soldiers’ mobile phones
12. ViperRAT used in attacks on Israeli soldiers
13. From SIEM to domain admin
14. Attacks on Saudi targets
15. Analysis of big Ursnif campaign
16. Who was behind LeakedSource.com
17. [PDF] Excellent 2016 report from F-Secure
18. Xagent Mac malware linked to APT28
19. About real impact of popular Android bugs
20. [PDF] Google report on APT28 tools
21. Unpacking Dridex loader
22. Analysis of Rambo backdoor
23. RCE in node-serialize
24. Beating ASLR plus explanation and limitations
25. Password guessing approach
26. Conflict between NSS Labs and CrowdStrike
27. SchoolBell botnet analysis
28. Malicious JavaScript leads to techsupport scam
29. Dumping LUKS key from memory
30. Protecting your data at a border crossing
31. January global threat impact index by Check Point
32. Google Drive blocks sharing of copyrighted files
33. Spoofing emails in Gmail
34. Local Priviledge Escalation in Ubuntu 16.10
35. Online PCAP analysis
36. Ticketbleed detection
37. Analysis of Marcher Android trojan
38. New DHS report on Russian attacks
39. Analysis of Russian-speaking ransomware ecosystem
40. The decline of top exploit kits
41. Have I Been Compromised – new search engine
42. Microsoft about trends in ransomware
43. New Cerber ransomware variant
44. Tracking Iranian hackers
45. Ransomware-as-a-service review
46. Credentials theft attack techniques
47. Combatting phishing

Did you enjoy this list? You can retweet it and subscribe to one of our feeds on Twitter, Facebook or RSS.