Security Affairs newsletter Round 98 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Hong Kong brokers blackmailed by hackers with DDoS Attacks

Uber pays $9,000 bug bounty payoff for partner firms vulnerability

Ransomware infected systems at a luxury hotel locking guests in and out of the rooms

Security Affairs newsletter Round 97 – News of the week

Last Dridex Trojan variant uses a new tactic to bypass Windows UAC

Ransomware shutdown 70% of Washington DC CCTV ahead of Presidents inauguration

Anonymous promises war on Trump, and only line experts say how to hack his mobile

A sophisticated spear phishing campaign is targeting NATO Governments

Hundreds of thousands, if not over a million Netgear routers open to hack

An IndyCar archive left unprotected online, details on 200k racing fans exposed

Gaza Cybergang is back and is targeting Governments under DustySky campaign

Islamic Jihad master hacker pleads guilty to hacking IDF drones in Gaza

Weaponizing of the insider in the Dark Web, a dangerous phenomenon

Hacking printers exploiting Cross-site printing (XSP) attacks

A new CryptoShield Ransomware being distributed via EITest campaign

Spanish police claim has arrested Phineas Fisher, the hacked denied it

WhatsApp will allow to Revoke Sent Messages and Track Friends Live Location

Zero-day Content Injection Vulnerability found in WordPress

Foreign hackers broke into the Czech Foreign Ministry email

Dutch Government announced all ballots will be counted by hand amid cyberattack fears

Russian cyber espionage group Turla leverages on a new JavaScript Malware

How much trust do you put into your Gmail inbox messages?

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability found in Cisco Prime Home product

Popular hacking toolkit Metasploit adds hardware testing capabilities

Chinese state-sponsored hackers targets Russia and Belarus with ZeroT and PlugX

US-CERT is warning about a Windows SMB zero-day flaw

Russian APT 29 group launched cyber attacks against Norwegian authorities

Hacker leaked tools stolen from mobile forensics company Cellebrite

PoliceOne hacked – Hacker is selling thousands police officials accounts

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