IT Security Weekend Catch Up – September 3, 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. MalwareTech’s donations mostly fraudulent
2. Facebook discovers family secrets
3. Attacks on US home buyers
4. North Korea spies in Ukraine
5. Russians accused of treason for helping US catch Russian hackers
6. Remote update bricked Samsung TVs
7. How a US fraudster was caught
8. Don’t post your boarding pass online
9. Data analysis used to fight human trafficking
10. IT staffers stole classified data
11. Millions USD phished with a simple email
12. Instagram user data leak
13. A US/Russia spy story
14. Drug dealer story
15. Story of a hotel hacker
16. Female hacker interview
17. [VIDEO] How was Dread Pirate Roberts identified

For the more technical

1. Kronos analysis part 2
2. [PDF] Fortinet Threat Landscape Report Q2
3. User data leak from secure official mailbox service in Norway
4. Nice summary of physical attacks on data security
5. Analysis of a malware attacks and leak of stolen data
6. AccuWeather app continues to invade user privacy
7. BGP configuration errors partially shut down Japan’s internet
8. Ronggolawe ransomware analysis
9. Brazilian researcher collected .onion addresses
10. Game of Thrones leaks used in malware attacks
11. UAC bypasses
12. [PDF] Indictment of Chinese malware author and some interesting parts
13. Critical vulnerabilities in SAP POS
14. Detecting hidden microphones with SDR
15. Expired plugin domains used in redirect attacks
16. Malicious attachments on LinkedIn
17. iOS 9.3.5 physical acquisition thanks to jailbreak
18. Personal hack via phone number takeover
19. Another attack on cryptocurrency users
20. Chinese exchanges gambled with customer funds
21. How one of ICOs was hacked
22. Websites deanonymise bitcoin users
23. NotPetya decryption tool
24. New exploit prices according to Zerodium
25. Interesting malware attack analysis
26. Fuze phones vulnerabilities
27. About iCloud keychain
28. Extracting iCloud keychain
29. APT28 attack analysis
30. How to frame yourself in thousands of attacks
31. [VIDEO] Stuxnet attack results analysis
32. Wikileaks attack analysis
33. Free RAT with a backdoor
34. PowerPoint attack analysis
35. GitLab session hijacking
36. Online file conversion website hacked
37. Threat hunting in ICS
38. New Poison Ivy sample analysis
39. Hacking gift cards
40. Angler Exploit Kit evading EMET
41. Bypassing Twitter API restrictions
42. Backdoors in Arris modems
43. Attacking UEFI
44. Malware attacks via USB
45. RCE in Western Digital products
46. Russian companies help in hacking US phones
47. New Turla APT modules: WhiteBear by Kaspersky and Gazer by ESET
48. Additional Turla modules described by BitDefender
49. TrickBot looking for cryptocurrency
50. Cardiac pacemakers recalled for updates + advisory
51. Analysis of a huge email addresses dump + description of leak source
52. Anonymous messenger steals contact information
53. Analysis of a new Neutrino version
54. Turning off Intel ME 11
55. Evolution of Android ransomware
56. Android WireX botnet analysis
57. Dumping data from deep insert skimmers
58. Exploiting robots
59. Phishing techniques
60. Vulnerable Jenkins in Snapchat
61. Chrome warns about malicious plugins
62. Multiplatform malware spreading on Facebook
63. Hackers scanning the internet for vulnerabilities
64. Rooting Motorola phones
65. Cracking 320 million hashes
66. BTC exchange attacks in South Korea
67. Free malware analysis sandboxes

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