Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2025
ESA disclosed a data breach, hackers breached external servers

ESA confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered to sell stolen data, confirming that external science servers were compromised. The European Space Agency (ESA) disclosed a data breach after a threat actor offered to sell data allegedly stolen from the organization.  A hacker who goes online with the moniker “888” announced on BreachForums the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2025
MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): the US, China, and the EU are among the top exploited GEOs

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) lets attackers remotely leak memory from unpatched MongoDB servers using zlib compression, without authentication. A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-14847 (MongoBleed), was disclosed right after Christmas, an unwelcome “gift” for the cybersecurity community, impacting MongoDB Server deployments that use zlib network compression. MongoDB is a popular open-source NoSQL database used to store and manage data […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2025
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in MongoDB Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a MongoDB Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a MongoDB Server vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS Score of 8.7), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The recently disclosed MongoDB vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 (aka MongoBleed) is being actively exploited, with more […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
Korean Air discloses data breach after the hack of its catering and duty-free supplier

Korean Air employee discloses a data breach after a hack of its catering and duty-free supplier, KC&D, affecting thousands of staff. Korean Air suffered a data breach after its in-flight catering supplier Korean Air Catering & Duty-Free (KC&D) was hacked, exposing personal data of ~30,000 employees of Korean Air employees. Korean Air is South Korea’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
MongoBleed flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild

A recently disclosed MongoDB flaw (MongoBleed) is under active exploitation, with over 87,000 potentially vulnerable instances exposed worldwide. A newly disclosed MongoDB vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (aka MongoBleed, CVSS score of 8.7), is being actively exploited, with more than 87,000 potentially vulnerable instances identified worldwide. Cybersecurity researcher Joe Desimone published a proof-of-concept exploit for this vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2025
LangChain core vulnerability allows prompt injection and data exposure

A critical flaw in LangChain Core could allow attackers to steal sensitive secrets and manipulate LLM responses via prompt injection. LangChain Core (langchain-core) is a key Python package in the LangChain ecosystem that provides core interfaces and model-agnostic tools for building LLM-based applications. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68664 (CVSS score of 9.3), affects the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2025
NPM package with 56,000 downloads compromises WhatsApp accounts

An NPM package with over 56,000 downloads stole WhatsApp credentials, hid its activity, and installed a backdoor. Koi Security researchers warned that the NPM package ‘Lotusbail’, a WhatsApp Web API library and fork of ‘Baileys’, has been stealing users’ credentials and data. The package has been available for six months and has had over 56,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Trust Wallet warns users to update Chrome extension after $7M security loss

Trust Wallet urged users to update its Chrome extension after a security incident caused about $7 million in losses. Trust Wallet warned users to update its Google Chrome extension after a security incident that resulted in about $7 million in losses. The flaw affects version 2.68 of the multi-chain, non-custodial wallet, which has around one […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Pro-Russian group Noname057 claims cyberattack on La Poste services

Pro-Russian hacking group Noname057 claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that recently disrupted La Poste’s digital banking and online services. This week, the French national postal service La Poste confirmed a major cyber incident had knocked its information systems offline, disrupting digital banking and online services for millions of customers. On social media, La Poste said […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Aflac confirms June data breach affecting over 22 million customers

A June data breach exposed the personal information of more than 22 million Aflac customers, the company confirmed. A data breach in June exposed the information of more than 22 million Aflac customers, according to a new statement from the insurance giant.  The company detected suspicious activity on a limited number of systems in June […]