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
- Secret Trump order gives CIA more powers to launch cyberattacks
- Phone of top Catalan politician ‘targeted by government-grade spyware’
- Russian hacker found guilty for Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Formspring breaches
- A hacker is selling details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web
- New Zealand property management company leaks 30,000 users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data
- Hackers convinced Twitter employee to help them hijack accounts
- Chasing crypto criminals
- CryptBB demystifying the illusion of the private forum
- Inside America’s secretive $2 billion research hub
- Atlas of Surveillance
For the more technical
- SIGRed – resolving your way into domain admin: Exploiting a 17 year-old bug in Windows DNS servers
- The day I trolled the entire Internet: An accidental research project on CVE-2020-1350
- Fixing the Zoom ‘Vanity Clause’ – Check Point and Zoom collaborate to fix Vanity URL issue
- crates.io security advisory
- Onapsis and SAP collaborate to protect SAP customers from RECON vulnerability
- Tencent reveals major quick-charge vulnerability affecting hundreds of millions of devices
- Critical Android flaw lets attackers hijack your phone
- GoldenHelper malware embedded in official Golden Tax Software
- Home Router Security Report 2020 (PDF)
- The fake Cisco
- Kasa camera vulnerability discovery: Responsible disclosures feel like groundhog day, again
- BlackRock – the Trojan that wanted to get them all
- Welcome Chat as a secure messaging app? Nothing could be further from the truth
- Breached data indexer ‘Data Viper’ hacked
- No-log VPNs exposed users’ logs and personal details for all to see
- How REvil used the underground ecosystem to form an extortion cartel
- APT29 targets COVID-19 vaccine development (PDF)
- Iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of themselves hacking
- The Tetrade: Brazilian banking malware goes global
- TrickBot group launches test module alerting on fraud activity
- Emotet spam trojan surges back to life after 5 months of silence
- Jackpotting with black box in Europe (PDF)
- How to use FIDO2 USB authenticators with SSH
- Ubuntu will no longer track which packages users install
- Mozilla launches VPN service to help protect your privacy
- Image “cloaking” for personal privacy
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