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Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2025
Over 300 entities hit by a variant of Atomic macOS Stealer in recent campaign

Over 300 entities hit by the Atomic macOS Stealer via malvertising campaign between June and August, CrowdStrike warns. From June and August, over 300 entities were hit by a variant of the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) called SHAMOS, reports CrowdStrike. The Atomic macOS Stealer lets operators steal diverse information from infected machines. This includes Keychain […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
Operation Serengeti 2.0: INTERPOL nabs 1,209 cybercriminals in Africa, seizes $97M

INTERPOL arrested 1,209 cybercriminals in 18 African nations seizing $97.4M, and dismantling 11,432 malicious infrastructures. INTERPOL announced the result of the second phase of ongoing law enforcement Operation Serengeti (June to August 2025) that led to 1,209 arrests across 18 nations in Africa. The authorities are aiding 88,000 victims, seizing $97.4M, and dismantling 11,432 cybercrime […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
After SharePoint attacks, Microsoft stops sharing PoC exploit code with China

Microsoft halts PoC exploit sharing with Chinese firms after SharePoint zero-day leaks, giving only written bug details to curb future abuse. Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese firms proof-of-concept exploit code through its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) program after July’s mass exploitation of SharePoint flaws, believed linked to a leak of early bug disclosures. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
Former developer jailed after deploying kill-switch malware at Ohio firm

Ex-developer jailed 4 years for sabotaging Ohio employer with kill-switch malware that locked employees out after his account was disabled. Ex-developer Davis Lu (55) was sentenced to 4 years for sabotaging Ohio employer with kill-switch malware that locked staff out after his account was disabled. The Chinese national was also sentenced to three years of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
Colt Discloses Breach After Warlock Ransomware Group Puts Files Up for Sale

Colt Technology Services confirmed a data breach by the WarLock ransomware group; the company is working to restore disrupted systems. Colt Technology Services confirmed that threat actors breached its systems and stole some data. The telecoms company is working to restore disrupted systems. Colt, officially known as Colt Technology Services Group Limited, is a multinational telecommunications […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-43300, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Apple addressed the actively exploited zero-day CVE-2025-43300 in iOS, iPadOS, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025
Orange Belgium July data breach impacted 850,000 customers

Orange Belgium revealed that a July attack resulted in the exposure of the information of 850,000 customer accounts. Orange Belgium announced that 850,000 customer accounts were impacted by a July data breach. Threat actors had access to one of the IT systems containing customers data, including surname, first name, telephone number, SIM card number, PUK […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2025
Apple addressed the seventh actively exploited zero-day

Apple addressed a vulnerability impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it is under active exploitation in the wild. Apple addressed an actively exploited zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-43300, in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability is zero-day out-of-bounds write issue that resides in the ImageIO framework, an attacker could exploit it to cause memory corruption when processing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2025
Hackers deploy DripDropper via Apache ActiveMQ flaw, patch systems to evade detection

Hackers exploit Apache ActiveMQ flaw to install DripDropper on Linux, then patch it to block rivals and hide their tracks. Red Canary researchers observed attackers exploit a 2-year-old Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score of 10.0), to gain persistence on cloud Linux systems and deploy DripDropper malware. Uniquely, they patch the flaw post-exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2025
A Scattered Spider member gets 10 years in prison

A 20-year-old Scattered Spider member gets 10 years in prison and $13M restitution for SIM-swapping crypto thefts. Scattered Spider hacker, Noah Michael Urban (20), was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. prison and ordered to pay $13M restitution for SIM-swapping crypto thefts. “A 20-year-old Palm Coast man linked to a massive cybercriminal gang was sentenced […]