Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2025
Dutch police seized 250 servers running a bulletproof hosting service tied to cybercriminals and linked to over 80 investigations since 2022. Dutch police Politie, seized 250 servers running an unnamed bulletproof hosting service used solely by cybercriminals. Active since 2022, it appeared in over 80 cybercrime investigations. “In an investigation into a rogue hosting company, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2025
Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps. On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2025
RondoDox botnet exploits unpatched XWiki flaw CVE-2025-24893 to gain RCE and infect more servers, despite fixes released in February 2025. RondoDox is targeting unpatched XWiki servers via critical RCE flaw CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score of 9.8), pulling more devices into its botnet despite patches released in Feb 2025. The XWiki Platform is a generic wiki framework […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2025
Five pleaded guilty to aiding North Korea ’s illicit revenue via IT worker fraud, violating international sanctions. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Korea secretly generate revenue by running illegal IT-worker schemes that violated international sanctions. The individuals – Audricus Phagnasay (24), Jason Salazar (30), Alexander […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2025
The Washington Post alerts nearly 10,000 employees and contractors that personal and financial data was exposed in the Oracle breach. The Washington Post warns nearly 10,000 staff and contractors that personal and financial data was exposed in the Oracle breach. The popular newspaper has approximately 2.5M digital subscribers. Between July 10 and August 22, threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2025
Malicious Chrome extension “Safery: Ethereum Wallet” steals users’ seed phrases while posing as a legit crypto wallet still available online. Socket’s Threat Research Team discovered a malicious Chrome extension called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” posing as a legitimate crypto wallet but designed to steal users’ seed phrases. The Chrome extension was uploaded to the Chrome Web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2025
Europol’s Operation Endgame dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium botnet in a global crackdown on cybercriminal infrastructures. Europol and Eurojust have launched a new phase of Operation Endgame, carried out between November 10 and 13, 2025, dismantling major malware families including Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet as part of a global effort […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2025
Google sues China-based group using “Lighthouse” phishing kit in large-scale smishing attacks to steal victims’ financial data. Google filed a lawsuit against a cybercriminal group largely based in China that is behind a massive text message phishing operation, or “smishing.” The organization uses a phishing-as-a-service kit named “Lighthouse” to steal sensitive financial information by sending […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2025
DanaBot returns after 6 months with a new Windows variant (v669), marking its comeback after being disrupted by Operation Endgame in May. DanaBot has resurfaced with a new variant (version 669) targeting Windows systems, six months after Operation Endgame disrupted its activity in May, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz. The researchers identified a set of command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2025
“Bitcoin Queen” Zhimin Qian gets 11 years in London for laundering $7.3B from a crypto scam that defrauded 128K victims in China. A British court sentenced a Chinese woman, Zhimin Qian (47), also known as the “Bitcoin Queen,” to 11 years and eight months in jail for laundering $7.3B from a crypto scam that defrauded 128K […]
