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Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities
Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
Social Blade discloses security breach
Data of 5.7M Gemini users available for sale on hacking forums
December 16, 2022 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Breaking News Cyber Crime Data Breach Hacking
CISA adds Veeam Backup and Replication bugs to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
MCCrash botnet targets private Minecraft servers, Microsoft warns
Microsoft revised CVE-2022-37958 severity due to its broader scope
Chinese MirrorFace APT group targets Japanese political entities
Database of the FBI’s InfraGard US Critical Infrastructure Intelligence portal available for sale
FBI seized 48 domains linked to DDoS-for-Hire service platforms
Crooks use HTML smuggling to spread QBot malware via SVG files
GoTrim botnet actively brute forces WordPress and OpenCart sites
December 2022 Patch Tuesday fixed 2 zero-day flaws
Apple fixed the tenth actively exploited zero-day this year
3.5m IP cameras exposed, with US in the lead
VMware fixed critical VM Escape bug demonstrated at Geekpwn hacking contest
Citrix and NSA urge admins to fix actively exploited zero-day in Citrix ADC and Gateway
Lockbit ransomware gang hacked California Department of Finance
Experts detailed a previously undetected VMware ESXi backdoor
Twitter says recently leaked user data are from 2021 breach
Fortinet urges customers to fix actively exploited FortiOS SSL-VPN bug
Indian foreign ministry’s Global Pravasi Rishta portal leaks expat passport details
Cryptomining campaign targets Linux systems with Go-based CHAOS Malware
Evilnum group targets legal entities with a new Janicab variant
TrueBot infections were observed in Clop ransomware attacks
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 Day 4: $989K awarded for 63 unique zero-days
MuddyWater APT group is back with updated TTPs

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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