Oct 22, 2018

Daily brief for 2018-10-21

ASIA

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

WORLD

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  5. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week
  6. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

ATTACKS

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished?
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. Travel data for about 30,000 individuals was exposed in a Pentagon #DataBreach and experts expect that the information could be
  5. Hackers launched @netflix #phishing attacks by obtaining TLS certificates. Learn how hackers mimic popular websites to spoof users and steal
  6. A combination of #SecurityFlaws and inadequate back-end development of the @Google Firebase database led to #DataLeaks and #SecurityVulnerabilities including HospitalGown.
  7. Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System and Steals Sensitive Personal Data of 75,000 Customers

THREATS

  1. Multiple Vulnerabilities In Telepresence Robots Patched
  2. Tumblr Patched Privacy Bug That Could Expose Sensitive Account Details
  3. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  4. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption
  5. Banking trojans, not #ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now.
  6. Then a vendor calls. A quality control system is running a hidden process. That shouldn’t be happening. The vendor rep
  7. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS
  8. 2 Million Network Storage Devices From WD, SeaGate, NetGear Affected by Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

CRIME

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

POLITICS

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week