Weekly Cyber Security News 19/05/2017

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Unless you’ve been on the moon for the past week you will no doubt had enough of the global WannCry rasnsomware hit reports. All I can add to that, if it’s not already been said, which it most likely has been: There is no hiding behind a wall garden network.

Apart from that there has in fact been other news surprisingly, some really quite starling. Take a look:

• Bell apologizes to customers after data breach hits 1.9 million e-mail addresses Josh O’Kane reports

• Code Stolen After Developer Installed Trojanized App

• DocuSign Admits Data Breach That Led to Recent Spam Campaigns Catalin Cimpanu reports

• Cyber Kid Stuns Experts Showing Toys Can be ‘Weapons’

• FTC Launches ‘Operation Tech Trap’ to Catch Fraudsters The Federal Trade Commission has teamed up with law enforcement partners to crack down on tech support scams.

• Global Cyber Attacks Hit British Hospitals, Spanish Firms

• Hacker Steals Millions of User Account Details from Education Platform Edmodo

• Hackers Steal 17 Million Users’ Data From Indian Restaurant App Zomato

• HP Removes Keylogger Functionality From Audio Drivers

• Manhunt for Hackers Behind Global Cyberattack

• Researchers Investigate Possible Connection Between WannaCry and North Korean Hacker Group

• Shadow Brokers Promise More Exploits for Monthly Fee

• WanaCrypt0r Hits Worldwide

• WannaCry’s ‘Kill Switch’ May Have Been a Sandbox-Evasion Tool
  

• ‘WannaCry’ Rapidly Moving Ransomware Attack Spreads to 74 Countries

• Botnet Spread via NSA Hacking Tools for Weeks

• Developing: Multiple NHS trusts across England disrupted by ransomware attack Digital Health is reporting

• WannaCry Ransomware Creators Make Rookie Mistake

• Your Grandma Could Be the Next Ransomware Millionaire

• _Patched_ WannaCry Ransomware Has No Kill-Switch

• DocuSign’s Brand Used in Phishing Attacks
  

• Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch in Response to Massive Ransomware Outbreak
  

• Alarm Grows Over Global Ransomware Attacks

• Critical SQL Injection Flaw Patched in Joomla

• Hackers exploit stolen U.S. spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack Costas Pitas and Carlos Ruano report

• NSA’s EternalBlue Exploit Fully Ported to Metasploit

• WordPress Launches Public Bug Bounty Program