Here is our latest news roundup of articles about network and SSL security. (Click here to see the whole series.)

SSL & Encryption

• Google recently released a list of Certificate Authorities that are not trusted by browsers.

Data Breaches

• A cybercriminal attempted to sell sensitive information for 1.5 million Verizon customers on the black market after breaching Verizon’s network.
• In October of last year, Trump Hotels suffered a breach through their payment system. Earlier this month, Trump Hotels suffered another credit card data breach.
• Stanford University suffered a tax-related data breach. Criminals stole W-2 forms from 3,500 Stanford employees.
• A former FDIC employee caused a major data breach, which affected 44,000 customers.
• A recent data breach in the Philippines exposed 54.36 million registered voters.
• 50 million Turkish citizens may have had their personal information exposed in a recent data breach.

Vulnerabilities

• A security researcher found that a flaw in Cisco UCS servers could allow a hacker the ability to hijack servers with a malicious HTTP request.
• Researchers discovered that cybercriminals could circumvent a faulty, three-year-old Java patch.
• Vulnerable servers leave hospitals open to ransomware attacks.
• Adobe alerted users of a critical vulnerability being exploited by attackers.

Malware

• Researchers discovered a banking malware that cybercriminals used to steal millions of dollars from banks across the U.S. and Canada in a matter of days.
• A malware dubbed Multigrain can steal credit card data from PoS systems.
• A new ransomware called Petya uses cloud storage sites such as DropBox to infect users.
• MedStar Health joins the list of healthcare providers that have been taken offline because of a malware attack.
• A malvertising campaign serving the Angler exploit kit hit Netherland’s top sites.

Cybercrime

• For the past two years, every two weeks or so phishers have been targeting one CEO in an attempt to trick him into wiring them money.
• A cybercrime group is targeting retail and hospitality companies that are still using weak PoS systems.
• Large DDoS attack hit China-based lottery site. The attack was successful because it hit weak spots in the site’s DDoS protection platform.
• Buhtrap a Russian hacking group has performed 13 successful attacks, stealing billions from Russian and EU banks.
• Researchers and law enforcement worked together to take-down a botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux.

IoT

• FBI warns farmers using IoT connected farm equipment that equipment hacks and data breaches are likely to occur in the near future.
• A flaw in common IoT connected door controllers can allow a hacker to unlock doors.

Research & Studies

• In a study, Google found that approximately 800,000 websites have been infected with malware or some other type of malicious content.
• 10% of organizations don’t have a cybersecurity framework in place, according to a new survey.
• A recent survey found that 45% of respondents do not know how long it would take their company to detect a data breach.
• Vormetric report finds that over 60% of federal agencies have been victims of a data breach.
• Researchers found that over 3 million servers are running vulnerable JBoss software, leaving servers open to attack.
• Because of misconfigured networks and outdated software, thousands of companies are vulnerable to cyberattack, says an investigation by F-Secure.
• According to researchers, malware will soon enter into a new era where malware self-propagates.
• Ransomware attacks are increasing and most companies are unprepared for them, according to a new Ponemon Institute survey.
• FBI warns that business email compromise is becoming a major threat to companies and has cost US companies over $ 2.3 billion in losses since 2013.
• In a Ponemon Institute survey, 39% of healthcare IT professionals said that their healthcare organizations did not know how to protect themselves from a cyberattack.
• Cybercriminals target healthcare organizations more than any other industry, according to 451 Research.
• A new study revealed that 14% of doctors store patient information on unprotected cell phones or other mobile devices.