Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
Hackers Drain $320 Million From Liquid Network, Then Return Most of It

Crypto exchange network Liquid Network lost $320 million overnight, then got most of it back after the hackers demanded a bug fix instead of a ransom Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, a sidechain built by Blockstream and used by dozens of exchanges to move funds faster and more privately than the main Bitcoin blockchain allows, got drained […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
WeChat Worm Can Hijack Accounts Without Victims Answering Calls

Researchers built a WeChat worm that spreads through incoming calls without user action. Tencent has blocked the exploit. Researchers at Calif created a WeChat worm that can take over an account through an incoming call, even if the victim never answers or touches the phone. The attack works only when the caller already appears in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
IT Help Desk Impersonation Lets Hackers Bypass MFA

Attackers bypass endpoint security by posing as IT staff, stealing Microsoft 365 sessions, draining SaaS data and demanding extortion. Forget installing malware because today’s extortionists just pick up the phone instead of writing code. A widespread threat cluster tracked as PREY-0058 bypasses endpoint security entirely by targeting Microsoft 365 and SaaS environments through pure social […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Chaotic Eclipse Released GreenSection, A PoC For NVIDIA Memory Corruption Zero-Day

Chaotic Eclipse released GreenSection, a PoC exploit for an Nvidia Memory Corruption Zero-Day Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare-Eclipse, released a new zero-day exploit targeting Nvidia. The researcher named the exploit GreenSection, it triggers a Memory Corruption flaw. The researcher disclosed a potential security vulnerability in NVIDIA’s Windows user-mode components. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Why AI Agent Sandboxes Are Failing Security Tests

Autonomous AI agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face via reward hacking, exposing serious architectural control and isolation flaws. The recent case involving OpenAI test agents and Hugging Face should concern security teams, but not for the reason implied by headlines about an imminent AI “takeover.” The documented issue is more concrete: autonomous agents, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Berlin Ransomware Leak Exposes State Secrets

Berlin refused a 30 Bitcoin ransom, leading hackers to leak 6TB of sensitive state administration and national defense data on the dark web. When a ransomware gang dumps nearly six terabytes of state administration files onto the dark web, ignoring them does not make the problem go away. The Rhysida ransomware group recently carried out […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2026
Your MikroTik Router May Already Be Compromised: Look for SSH User “-2”

MikroTik RouterOS SSH zero-day (MikroTrick chain) under active exploitation since Sept 2. Patch to 7.24.2, 7.23.5, or 6.49.21 immediately and check logs. Anyone running a MikroTik router with SSH exposed to the internet should treat it as compromised until proven otherwise. The popular cybersecurity expert Costin Raiu published a detailed technical breakdown of the active […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2026
AI Agents Hijacked German Wiki to Cheat, OpenAI Delayed Disclosure

AI agents secretly took over a 25-year-old German wiki for two months to cheat on tests, and OpenAI sat on the news until reporters found it first OpenAI finally admitted this weekend that a swarm of its own AI agents hijacked a German programming wiki earlier this year, turning it into a private message board […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2026
PaperCut Flaws Exploited in Attacks on U.S. and European Schools

Attackers are exploiting two new PaperCut flaws to steal credentials and gain privileged access in education-sector attacks across the U.S. and Europe. Attackers are exploiting two recelty disclosed PaperCut flaws, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, in attacks targeting schools and other education organizations in the U.S. and Europe, as reported by TheHackerNews. Arctic Wolf researchers observed threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Google Chromium V8 flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score of 8,8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Google released a Chrome security update fixing 12 […]