Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
U.S. Targets Russian Cyber Spies With $10M Bounty Over Messaging App Attacks

The U.S. offers up to $10M for information on Russian hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials and journalists. The U.S. government is offering rewards of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of members of the Russian-linked groups UNC5792 and UNC4221. The hackers target government officials, military personnel, journalists, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
SSU and FBI Uncover Russian Cyber Espionage Operation Against Officials and Military Personnel

Ukraine’s SSU and the FBI Just Confirmed Russian Intelligence Has Been Systematically Hacking Messenger Accounts for Years. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), working jointly with the FBI, has formally exposed a sustained Russian intelligence campaign targeting the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists across Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Activist Phone Hacked With Cellebrite After Russia Contract Cancellation

Russian authorities used Cellebrite tools to unlock an activist’s iPhone and analyze private data despite canceled support, raising abuse concerns. On May 31, 2021, Russian security services pulled opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov off a flight at St. Petersburg airport and confiscated his iPhone 12 and MacBook. He never consented to a search and never gave […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-12569 is a critical remote […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Third-Party Breach at Polymarket Leads to $2.94M Crypto Theft

Polymarket confirmed hackers stole funds from some users after attackers injected malicious code through a compromised third-party vendor. Polymarket confirmed that a security breach at a third-party vendor allowed attackers to inject malicious code into its website, leading to the theft of funds from an undisclosed number of users. The company said it has contained […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Curl Fixes a 25-Year-Old Bug in Its Largest CVE Release Yet

Curl fixed 18 vulnerabilities, including a 25-year-old bug, with issues spanning auth bypass, memory safety, and host validation in libcurl. Curl maintainers addressed eighteen vulnerabilities with a single update, and one of them goes back 25 years. That’s not a typo, it really sat there since the early 2000s. curl is a widely used open-source […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited Months Before Disclosure

Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat actor exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS base score of 7.8) as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed. The flaw allows an authenticated attacker with […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Cisco Unified CM Flaw CVE-2026-20230 Actively Exploited in the Wild

Attackers exploit Cisco Unified CM flaw (CVE-2026-20230) allowing unauth HTTP requests to trigger SSRF, write files, and gain root access Cisco Unified Communications Manager has a serious vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score of 8.6), that attackers are already exploiting. The flaw, caused by improper validation of certain HTTP requests, allows a remote attacker without […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: The first flaw, tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
FortiBleed: The Broker Who Turned 73,000 Firewalls Into a Product Catalog

FortiBleed exposed valid credentials for 73,000+ Fortinet firewalls, revealing a large-scale access-brokering operation targeting organizations worldwide. In mid-June 2026, researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko found a live, exposed server containing working login credentials for tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls, a data leak code-named FortiBleed. The headline number, valid remote-access logins for 73,932 devices across 21,632 […]