IT Security Weekend Catch Up – February 4, 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. How US election can change the fate of a Russian hacker
2. How Secret Service unlocks phones
3. The story of arrest of one of the top Russin spies
4. Sinaloa cartel continues to operate withou El Chapo
5. Radio stations hacked, Trump song played
6. Jihadist admitted to Israeli drone hacking
7. Pacemaker data used to indict an arsonist
8. Fake accounts in Grindr used to harrass a man

For the more technical

1. Extremly detailed Nymaim analysis
2. Some space attacks
3. AlphaBay drug bazaar troubles
4. How Google defended Krebs from DDoS attacks
5. Hacking a Thomson TWG870 modem
6. Stolen tools to brake mobile phone protections dumped
7. Chineese attacks on Rusisian-speaking countries
8. Locky campaign analysis
9. How Facebook links people and accounts together
10. An interesing and dangerous WordPress bug
    1. Akamai
    2. Sucuri
    3. WordPress
    4. Cloudflare
    5. exploit
11. Large phishing campaign against Egyptian activists
12. Extracting WhatsApp conversations from Android 
13. D-Link’s unsuccefull attempt at backdoor patching
14. Kelihos campaign analysis
15. Analysis of a Quasar RAT state-sponsored campaign
16. [PDF] Attacks using insiders
17. Using WMV files to unmask Tor users (link to similar attack)
18. Analysis of Necurs botnet operation
19. Analysis of boot process in Petya ransomware
20. Backdooring Joomla
21. Stylometric attribution based on source code
22. Locky Bart ransomware analysis
23. Analysis of a long malvertising campaign
24. A very interesting DNS misconfiguration analysis
25. Interesting issue with file managers in Linux
26. Linking browsing history with social media profiles
27. Tools for  Utimaco Firmware RE
28. Making money out of thin air
29. Bypassing authentication in Netgear routers
30. How Facebook is trying to solve the forgotten password issue
31. Google VRP summary for 2016
32. Huge EItest campaign analysis
33. Fighting ransomware with Windows Defender APT
34. Twitter metadata analyser
35. Twitter activist security guidance
36. RCE in Java Springboot
37. EyePyramid comment
38. How EyePyramid avoided detection
39. [PDF] Malwarebytes 2016 report
40. Unauthorised printouts
41. DDoS attacks in Q4 2016
42. New Turla payload
43. Hunting exploit kits
44. Cisco Prime Home flaw
45. Sage 2.0 ransomware analysis
46. Tallinn Manual 2.0 issued

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