Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2025
Qilin ransomware claimed responsibility for the attack on the beer giant Asahi

Qilin ransomware claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the beer giant Asahi that disrupted operations in Japan. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (commonly called Asahi) is Japan’s largest brewing company, known for producing top-selling beers like Asahi Super Dry, as well as soft drinks and other beverages. It operates both domestically and internationally, with a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2025
DragonForce, LockBit, and Qilin, a new triad aims to dominate the ransomware landscape

DragonForce, LockBit, and Qilin formed a ransomware alliance to boost attack effectiveness, marking a major shift in the cyber threat landscape. Ransomware groups DragonForce, LockBit, and Qilin formed a strategic alliance to enhance their attack capabilities, signaling an evolving cyber threat landscape. The alliance aims at sharing tools and infrastructure to enhance attack effectiveness. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2025
GoAnywhere MFT zero-day used by Storm-1175 in Medusa ransomware campaigns

Storm-1175 exploits GoAnywhere MFT flaw CVE-2025-10035 in Medusa attacks, allowing easy remote code execution via License Servlet bug. A cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-1175, has been actively exploiting a maximum severity GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability (CVE-2025-10035) in Medusa ransomware attacks for nearly a month. The vulnerability CVE-2025-10035 is a deserialization issue in the License Servlet of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2025
CrowdStrike ties Oracle EBS RCE (CVE-2025-61882) to Cl0p attacks began Aug 9, 2025

CrowdStrike links Oracle EBS flaw CVE-2025-61882 (CVSS 9.8) to Cl0p, enabling unauthenticated RCE, first exploited on August 9, 2025. CrowdStrike researchers attributed with moderate confidence the exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2025-61882 (CVSS 9.8) to the Cl0p group, also known as Graceful Spider. The critical bug allows unauthenticated remote code execution, with the first […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2025
ShinyHunters Launches Data Leak Site: Trinity of Chaos Announces New Ransomware Victims

Trinity of Chaos, tied to Lapsus$, Scattered Spider & ShinyHunters, hit 39 firms via Salesforce flaws, launching a TOR data leak site. The Trinity of Chaos, a ransomware collective presumably associated with Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters groups, launched a Data Leak Site (DLS) on the TOR network containing 39 companies including but not limited […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2025
Google warns of Cl0p extortion campaign against Oracle E-Business users

Google observed Cl0p ransomware group sending extortion emails to executives, claiming theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data. Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) researchers are tracking a suspected Cl0p ransomware group’s activity, where threat actors attempt to extort executives with claims of stealing Oracle E-Business Suite data. “A group of hackers claimed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
Allianz Life data breach impacted 1.5 Million people

Allianz Life breach exposed data of 1.5M people, including names, addresses, birth dates, and Social Security numbers stolen from a cloud CRM. In July, Allianz Life disclosed a breach where hackers stole data from a cloud database, affecting most of its customers and staff. In August, the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned reported 1.1M impacted, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
Cybercrime group claims to have breached Red Hat ‘s private GitHub repositories

The cybercrime group calling itself the Crimson Collective claimed to have compromised Red Hat ‘s private GitHub repositories. The Crimson Collective claimed it had stolen 570GB from Red Hat ’s private GitHub repositories, including 28,000 projects and approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs) with sensitive network data. CERs often contain sensitive info, including infrastructure details, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2025
WestJet confirms cyberattack exposed IDs, passports in June incident

WestJet confirms June cyberattack that disrupted certain internal systems, exposed customer passports and IDs. WestJet airline confirmed the June security breach exposed customer passports and IDs. WestJet is a Canadian airline that operates both domestic and international flights. Founded in 1996, it started as a low-cost carrier and has grown to become Canada’s second-largest airline, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2025
UK convicts Chinese national in £5.5B crypto fraud, marks world’s largest Bitcoin seizure

A Chinese national was convicted in the UK for crypto fraud as police seized ÂŁ5.5B (61,000 Bitcoin), the world’s largest cryptocurrency seizure. UK authorities raided the London home of Chinese national Zhimin Qian (47), also known as Yadi Zhang, and confiscated ÂŁ5.5 billion (about $7.39 billion) in cryptocurrency, totaling 61,000 Bitcoin. Police described it as […]