Weekly Cyber Security News 04/08/2017

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. At long last Adobe announce an end to Flash Player!

• Adobe to Kill Flash Player, End Support by 2020

• Adobe’s Move to Kill Flash Is Good for Security In recent years, Flash became one of the buggiest widely used apps out there.

In a rather unusual turn of events a research was arrested yesterday. I suspect more to come from this one:

• WannaCry ‘Kill Switch’ Creator Arrested in Vegas

And we have an interesting selection of IoT, bug and small devices exposing various vulnerabilities:

• Researchers Demo Physical Attack via Car Wash Hack

• Amazon Echo Could Become an Attacker’s Listening Device

• Hacking the Wind A security researcher at Black Hat USA shows how wind turbine systems are susceptible to potentially damaging cyberattacks.

• Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors

 

Other bits: 

• 2 ministers leave Swedish Cabinet in wake of security breach The Associated Press reports

• Nuance says majority of clients back online after Petya cyberattack As Nuance continues to attempt to restore services following the Petya attack in June

• Sweden Data Scandal Costs Two Ministers Their Jobs

• Sweden Rattled by Massive Confidential Data Leak

• Hacker Steals $8.4 Million in Ethereum from Veritaseum

• Malware Attack Disrupts Merck’s Worldwide Operations

• Ransomware Attack on Merck Caused Widespread Disruption to Operations

• Symantec to Sell Certificate Business to DigiCert for $950 Million

• The Coolest Talk at Defcon 25 That No One is Writing About

• UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report

• WannaCry Ransom Bitcoins Withdrawn from Online Wallets More than $140,000 in digital currency paid by WannaCry victims has been removed from online wallets.

• Wells Fargo Accidentally Releases Trove of Data on Wealthy Clients Serge F. Kovaleski and Stacy Cowley report

• Downtime from Ransomware More Lethal to Small Businesses Than the Ransom

• Hackers have cashed out on $143,000 of bitcoin from the massive WannaCry ransomware attack Ryan Browne reports

• NoMoreRansom Says 28,000 Victim Devices Decrypted

• Ransomware victims have paid out more than $25 million, Google study finds Russell Brandom reports

• Ransomware: Canadian company pays $425,000 Luke Irwin writes

• Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con Joseph Cox reports

• TrickBot Trojan Gets Worm-Like Infection Powers

• UK Security Researcher ‘Hero’ Accused of Creating Bank Malware

• Undetected For Years, Stantinko Malware Infected Half a Million Systems

• Google Takes Second Swing at OAuth Worm

• The Lazy Habits of Phishing Attackers

• Broadcom Chipset Bug in Android, iOS Smartphones Allows Remote Attack