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Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed at least $200 million in a year
Remarks on NATO and its approach to the cyber offensive
Sectigo says that most of certificates reported by Chronicle analysis were already revoked
BlueKeep scans observed from exclusively Tor exit nodes
Crooks leverages .htaccess injector on Joomla and WordPress sites for malicious redirects
First American Financial exposed 16 years worth of personal and financial documents
Hacker breached Perceptics, a US maker of license plate readers
APT10 is back with two new loaders and new versions of known payloads
DuckDuckGo Address Bar Spoofing
Internet scans found nearly one million systems vulnerable to BlueKeep
Shade Ransomware is very active outside of Russia and targets more English-speaking victims
Siemens Healthineers medical products vulnerable to Windows BlueKeep flaw
All Docker versions affected by an unpatched race condition issue
Google white hat hacker found code execution flaw in Notepad
HawkEye Keylogger is involved in attacks against business users
News aggregator Flipboard disclosed a data breach
TA505 is expanding its operations
Using Public Wi-Fi? Your data can be hacked easily! Heres How…
Checkers double drive-thru restaurants chain discloses card breach
Convert Plus WordPress plugin flaw allows hackers to create Admin accounts
Emissary Panda APT group hit Government Organizations in the Middle East
Nansh0u campaign already infected 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers
VPNpro research: this Chinese-linked company secretly owns 10 VPNs with 86 million installs
0patch released micropatch for BearLPE Zero-Day flaw in Windows 10 Task Scheduler
HiddenWasp, a sophisticated Linux malware borroes from Mirai and Azazel
Microsoft warns for the second time of applying BlueKeep patch
Security expert shows how to bypass macOS Gatekeeper
The Pyramid Hotel Group data leak exposes 85GB of security logs of major hotel chains
Apple updates address SQLite, WebKit issues in iTunes and iCloud for Windows
Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack
GandCrab operators are shutting down their operations
Russian military plans to replace Windows with Astra Linux



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Pierluigi Paganini

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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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