Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2026
Seven Bugs in FatFs Put IoT and Embedded Devices at Risk

runZero found 7 flaws in FatFs, a filesystem used in IoT and embedded devices. Bugs can cause memory corruption, crashes, or data leaks via crafted storage. Cybersecurity firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a compact open-source library that lets embedded devices read and write FAT and exFAT formatted storage, the same formats used […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2026
Bad Epoll Flaw Gives Attackers Root Access on Linux and Android

Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets local attackers gain root on Linux and Android. The flaw was missed by AI but found by a security researcher. A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, named Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242), allows a local attacker with no special privileges to gain full root access on affected Linux systems and Android devices. Security updates are […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2026
Pegasus Used Against MEP Investigating Pegasus, Citizen Lab Finds

A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in recent surveillance research: former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware while serving on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2026
The Anatomy of a Shadow AI Supply-Chain Breach: Lessons from the 2026 Vercel Incident

Vercel breach happened after an employee used an unvetted AI tool. Attackers exploited it as a trusted link to access systems, steal data, and extort $2M. The Vercel breach of April 2026 did not begin with a classic zero-day exploit, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or a sophisticated nation-state infrastructure implant. Instead, it unfolded when an […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2026
Government and Healthcare Are the Weakest Links in Global Email Security

Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 domains across 13 sectors and scored each one out of 8 points based on four standard email authentication protocols: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS. The results […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2026
U.S. CISA adds a Microsoft SharePoint Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Microsoft SharePoint Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Microsoft SharePoint Server flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45659 (CVSS score v3.1 of 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of May, Microsoft released security updates […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2026
430,000 FortiGate Devices Exposed in FortiBleed Ransomware Link

FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBleed, a large-scale campaign that harvested credentials from over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls worldwide, directly to two active ransomware operations: INC Ransom and Lynx. The link isn’t circumstantial. An operator […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2026
Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw Under Active Attack, 950 Systems Exposed

Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2026-46817 is under active attack, with about 950 vulnerable internet-facing instances still exposed. This week, Defused Cyber researchers warned that a critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, tracked as CVE-2026-46817, is being actively exploited. The flaw affects Oracle Payments versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 and allows unauthenticated attackers to take over vulnerable […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2026
GuardFall Flaw Hits 10 of 11 Popular Open-Source AI Agents

Researchers found a shell injection flaw in 10 of 11 popular open-source AI agents, allowing attackers to bypass command filters. Adversa AI just published a survey, titled “GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents,” of eleven open-source AI coding and computer-use agents, and the headline finding is uncomfortable: ten of them leave […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2026
U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a SimpleHelp flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48558 (CVSS score v3.1 of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-48558 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in SimpleHelp versions 5.5.15 and earlier and […]