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HEADLINES

  • Stolen **Yahoo Data Sold** to Spammers, One Government Client
  • Nigerian Hacker Breaches **LA County, Data** of 756,000 Individuals Exposed
  • **GCHQ** asked to step up action against cyber-attack threat to financial services

TRENDS

  • Revealed: Cyber attacks that hit **UAE** in 2016

Attacks

  • (Ameriprise Financial) Insecure NAS Device Exposes 350 Ameriprise Investment Accounts
  • (Bleacher Report) Sports blog jocks to crypto-cash nerds – here’s who got pwned
  • **LinkedIn**’s **Lynda.com** Notifies Users of Data Breach
  • Beware of “Unbelievable” **Uggs** Prices as Scammers Are Getting Smarter
  • Wordfence warns of a huge increase in brute force attacks on **WordPress**
  • (Yahoo Attack) Stolen **Yahoo Data Sold** to Spammers, One Government Client
  • (India) **80,000 cyber attacks** on December 9 and 12 after note ban
  • (Updated) **Slovak Chamber of Commerce** and Industry Hacked
  • (Thailand) Hackers Hit Thai Sites to Protest Restrictive Internet Law
  • Hackers Might Have Turned Off the Lights in **Ukraine** for the Second Time
  • (UK) **Domino’s Pizza** advises customers to change their passwords
  • (US / California) Nigerian Hacker Breaches **LA County, Data** of 756,000 Individuals Exposed
  • (US / NSA) **ShadowBrokers Dump** Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider

MALWARE

  • Evolved **DNSChanger** malware slings evil ads at PCs, hijacks routers
  • **Faketoken**, the Android ransomware banker that encrypted files
  • **Hailstorm methods** used to spread malware in phishing attacks
  • **Locky Ransomware**: How this malware menace evolved in just 12 months
  • Updated **Tordow** Android Malware Gets Ransomware Capabilities
  • Neustar Releases Exclusive DDoS and Cybersecurity Insights

ATTACKERS

  • (David Kent) Oil industry networking site creator pleads guilty in U.S. hacking case
  • (Bogdan Nicolescu, Tiberiu Danet, Radu Miclaus) Three Romanian Nationals Indicted in $4 Million Cyber Fraud Scheme that Infected at Least 60,000 Computers and Sent 11 Million Malicious Emails

VULNERABILITIES

  • Security Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Take Control of Airplanes
  • **MacBooks** Leak Disk Encryption Password

PATCHES

  • Privilege Escalation, RCE Flaws Patched in **Nagios Core**
  • Serious **Ubuntu Linux** desktop bugs found and fixed

GEOPOL

  • (UK) **GCHQ** asked to step up action against cyber-attack threat to financial services
  • (US) Florida court says password disclosure not protected by Fifth Amendment

GENERAL

  • Why Phishing Is Only The Beginning Of A Cyber Attack
  • **Medical data**: Accessible and irresistible for cyber criminals
  • The UK is every hacker’s promised land

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About The CIDC
The Cyber Intelligence Defence Centre (CIDC) is a component of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and Security Science (CSCSS). The Cyber Intelligence Defence Center (CIDC) develops and shares intelligence on: malware, malware developers and cyber-criminals. We are an internationally oriented, intelligence analysis and sharing center.
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