Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in recent surveillance research: former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware while serving on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Sysdig reports an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack end-to-end, exploiting flaws, stealing creds, moving laterally, and encrypting data without humans. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team has documented what it assesses to be the first ransomware operation driven end-to-end by a large language model. The operator, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, broke into a server, harvested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Vercel breach happened after an employee used an unvetted AI tool. Attackers exploited it as a trusted link to access systems, steal data, and extort $2M. The Vercel breach of April 2026 did not begin with a classic zero-day exploit, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or a sophisticated nation-state infrastructure implant. Instead, it unfolded when an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Google disrupted NetNut, a major proxy network that routed internet traffic through compromised home devices used by cybercriminals. Google has disrupted NetNut, one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks. The service routed internet traffic through home devices, allowing customers to hide their real location and identity. “Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 domains across 13 sectors and scored each one out of 8 points based on four standard email authentication protocols: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS. The results […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
EU’s top court upheld a €4.1B fine against Google, ruling it abused Android’s market dominance through restrictive licensing practices. The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its ruling on July 2, 2026, and Google lost. The court dismissed the appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against an earlier judgment from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBleed, a large-scale campaign that harvested credentials from over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls worldwide, directly to two active ransomware operations: INC Ransom and Lynx. The link isn’t circumstantial. An operator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Adobe fixed multiple critical flaws, including max severity bugs in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic that could lead to remote code execution Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion and Campaign Classic, fixing multiple critical vulnerabilities, including seven maximum-severity issues (CVSS score of 10.0). If exploited, the flaws could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, escalate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to the U.S. over hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Peter Stokes, 19, an alleged Scattered Spider member known online as “Bouquet,” has been extradited from Finland to the U.S. to face hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Prosecutors say he took part in multiple cyberattacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2026-46817 is under active attack, with about 950 vulnerable internet-facing instances still exposed. This week, Defused Cyber researchers warned that a critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, tracked as CVE-2026-46817, is being actively exploited. The flaw affects Oracle Payments versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 and allows unauthenticated attackers to take over vulnerable […]
