Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2025
Jaguar Land Rover shuts down systems after cyberattack, no evidence of customer data theft

Jaguar Land Rover shut down systems after a cyberattack, disrupting production and retail, but says customer data likely remains safe. Jaguar Land Rover shut down systems to mitigate a cyberattack that disrupted production and retail operations. The attack occurred over the weekend, and it also impacted systems at the Solihull production plant. UK dealers reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2025
Cloudflare blocked a record 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare blocked a record 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack, a UDP flood from Google Cloud, part of weeks-long assault waves. Cloudflare announced on X that it had blocked the largest ever DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps. The UDP flood, mainly from Google Cloud, was part of a wave of attacks that lasted several weeks. Cloudflare […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2025
North Korea’s APT37 deploys RokRAT in new phishing campaign against academics

ScarCruft (APT37) launches Operation HanKook Phantom, a phishing campaign using RokRAT to target academics, ex-officials, and researchers. Cybersecurity firm Seqrite Labs uncovered a phishing campaign, tracked as dubbed Operation HanKook Phantom, by the North Korea-linked group APT37 (aka Ricochet Chollima, ScarCruft, Reaper, and Group123). Threat actors are using a fake “National Intelligence Research Society Newsletter […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2025
Amazon blocks APT29 campaign targeting Microsoft device code authentication

Amazon stopped a Russia-linked APT29 watering hole attack that hijacked Microsoft device code authentication via compromised sites. Amazon announced that it had disrupted an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked cyber espionage group APT29 (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, BlueBravo, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes). Amazon experts labeled the attacks as an opportunistic watering hole campaign using compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2025
Lab Dookhtegan hacking group disrupts communications on dozens of Iranian ships

Lab Dookhtegan hacking group allegedly disrupted communications of 60 Iranian ships run by sanctioned firms NITC and IRISL. The hacking group Lab Dookhtegan allegedly disrupted the communications of 60 Iranian ships. The attack hit at least 39 tankers and 25 cargo ships operated by Iranian maritime companies National Iranian Oil Tanker Company and Iran Shipping Lines, which […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2025
New zero-click exploit allegedly used to hack WhatsApp users

WhatsApp warns users targeted by advanced spyware, sending threat notifications to affected individuals from the past 90 days. A new zero-click exploit used to hack WhatsApp users, reported Donncha Ă“ Cearbhaill, Head of Security Lab at @AmnestyTech. WhatsApp has just sent out a round of threat notifications to individuals they believe were targeted by an […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2025
Experts warn of actively exploited FreePBX zero-day

Sangoma warns of an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day affecting systems with publicly exposed admin control panels. The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team addressed an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-57819 (CVSS score of 10.0), impacting systems with an internet-facing administrator control panel (ACP). FreePBX is an open-source telephony software platform that provides a web-based graphical […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2025
200 Swedish municipalities impacted by a major cyberattack on IT provider

Cyberattack on Miljödata disrupted services in over 200 Swedish municipalities, with concerns over stolen sensitive data. A cyberattack on Miljödata, an IT supplier serving 80% of Swedish municipalities, including SkellefteĂĄ, MönsterĂĄs and Kalmar, disrupted services in over 200 municipalities and raised concerns of stolen sensitive data. The Swedish Privacy Agency confirmed that it has already received around 70 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2025
NSA, NCSC, and allies detailed TTPs associated with Chinese APT actors targeting critical infrastructure Orgs

NSA and allies warn that Chinese APT actors, including Salt Typhoon, are targeting critical infrastructure worldwide. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and allies warn Chinese APT actors, linked to Salt Typhoon, are targeting global telecom, government, transport, lodging, and military sectors. “The National Security Agency (NSA) and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2025
UNC6395 targets Salesloft in Drift OAuth token theft campaign

Hackers breached Salesloft to steal OAuth/refresh tokens for Drift AI chat; GTIG and Mandiant link the campaign to threat actor UNC6395. Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant researchers investigate a large-scale data theft campaign carried out to hack the sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI) chat […]