Security Affairs newsletter Round 49 – News of the week

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Project Cumulus – Tracking fake phished credentials leaked to Dark Web

Linux Mint was hacked, website served malicious ISO on Saturday

Utah systems experiences 300k hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data Center

Security Affairs newsletter Round 48 – News of the week

Anonymous took down several government websites of Saudi Arabia

Source code of the Android GM Bot malware was leaked online

FBI must reveal the network investigative technique used to hack more than 1000 computers

Admedia attacks now rely also on Joomla to serve ransomware

Ratopak Trojan – Russian banks under attack

Russian Nation-state hackers intensify operations in Syria

Pay-by-Selfie – MasterCard is replacing the customer password with his selfie

IRS is warning taxpayers of a new surge in tax-related incidents

Anonymous hacked the Frances Ministry of Defense portal CIMD (Centre dIdentification des Materiels de la Defense)

Operation Dust Storm, hackers Target Japanese Critical Infrastructure

Use of acid and lasers to access data stored on iPhones

Mousejack attack – Hijack Wireless Mouse/Keyboard Dongles from 100 meters to control PCs

Operation Blockbuster revealed the Lazarus Group Activities

Remotely hacking a Nissan LEAF via vulnerable APIs

Author of the Angler EK integrated recently Silverlight exploit

The new iPhone designed by Apple will be unhackable

The DoD funded the Carnegie Mellon Universitys research on Tor Hacking

Cisco fixes Command Injection vulnerability in CISCO ACE 4710 products

Discover how many ways there were to hack your Apple TV

Wikileaks – NSA tapped world leaders for US geopolitical Interests

Ransomware attacks paralyzed at least two German hospitals

Gemalto Breach Level Index report 2015, what are hackers looking for?

Securing Hospitals from hackers that can put lives in dangers

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