Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
ShapedPlugin Supply Chain Attack Backdoors Pro Plugin Updates

Attackers backdoored ShapedPlugin Pro updates, deploying malware that steals credentials, 2FA secrets, and grants full site access. If you installed a ShapedPlugin Pro plugin between April and June 2026 and kept it updated, your site may be compromised. Not because you did something wrong, but because the vendor’s own build and distribution pipeline was breached. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Squidbleed: 29-Year-Old Squid Bug Leaks User Credentials

Squidbleed is a 29-year-old Squid Proxy flaw that can leak credentials, tokens, and other users’ HTTP data through a memory overread. Researchers at Calif.io have disclosed CVE-2026-47729, a memory leak vulnerability in Squid Proxy that was introduced in 1997 and has remained undetected through nearly three decades of releases, audits, and rewrites. They named it […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
Anthropic’s Mythos AI broke into almost all NSA classified systems in hours

Senate testimony claims Anthropic’s Mythos AI breached NSA and Cyber Command systems in hours, prompting a U.S.-ordered shutdown. On June 12, the Trump administration directed Anthropic to restrict access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two most capable models, exclusively to US citizens. Because verifying every user’s nationality in real time isn’t practically possible, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
FortiBleed: The Most Detailed Breakdown Yet of an Active Russian Credential-Harvesting Operation

FortiBleed targeted 430,000+ FortiGate devices, harvesting 110M credentials and enabling breaches through large-scale credential theft. A new threat intelligence report from SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit (STRU), the team that first identified and named the FortiBleed campaign, goes deeper than anything published so far on what is shaping up to be one of the most significant […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
usbliter8 Brings Unpatchable BootROM Exploit to Apple A12 and A13 Devices

usbliter8 is an unpatchable BootROM exploit affecting A12/A13 devices, enabling code execution and extending checkm8-like risks to newer iPhones. Security researchers at Paradigm Shift published a working exploit on June 18, 2026, called usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips. SecureROM is the first code that runs […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2026
FortiBleed Exposes Global Credential-Spraying Operation

FortiBleed exposed a massive campaign that made billions of login attempts against Fortinet VPNs, compromising organizations worldwide. FortiBleed wasn’t a targeted hack. It was a factory. A multi-operator crew ran an industrial-scale attack against Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN devices worldwide, and security researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com caught them only because they left their […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2026
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation Following FortiBleed Leak

FortiBleed exposed credentials for 74,000 Fortinet devices, with attackers actively exploiting the leak to target systems worldwide. On June 18, CISA issued an emergency alert after reports surfaced that credentials for approximately 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways had been leaked in what researchers are calling FortiBleed. The agency confirmed that threat actors were actively […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Splunk Enterprise flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and urges agencies to fix it by Sunday

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Splunk Enterprise flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Splunk Enterprise flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20253 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw CVE-2026-20253 is an improper authentication vulnerability in the PostgreSQL sidecar service of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Cisco fixed a critical ISE vulnerability that lets attackers to gain root access

Cisco addressed CVE-2026-20181, a critical ISE vulnerability that lets authenticated admins execute commands and gain root access. Cisco addressed a critical command execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20181 (CVSS score of 9.1), affecting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE-PIC. The flaw stems from improper validation of user-supplied input, allowing an authenticated attacker with administrative credentials to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Zero-Day in Defender, Patch Under Development

Microsoft confirmed the RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656), a privilege escalation flaw, and is developing a security patch. Microsoft has acknowledged the RoguePlanet zero-day affecting Microsoft Defender, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score of 7.8). The vulnerability allows privilege escalation through the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. The company stated it is aware of the issue and is […]