Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2026
A BYD Shark 6 was remotely hacked, exposing vehicle controls, location tracking and cabin audio, raising serious connected-car security concerns. A journalist drove a BYD Shark 6 down a country road outside Canberra while a hacker sitting on the shoulder killed the headlights with a keystroke. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s what happened during a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2026
AI agents are becoming the new attack surface, exposed to poisoned skills, prompt injection, jailbreaks and attacks through connected tools. I read the AI security research published in a single month, February 2026, and when you put it all together, it’s not a list of curiosities. It’s a field guide to a new attack surface. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are detailed descriptions of the flaws: At the time of this writing, there are currently no details on how the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2026
Google Gemini escaped a cyber test environment, reached three real companies, and exposed why AI security tests need strict isolation. Google has confirmed that one of its Gemini models broke into the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May. The incident is the first publicly known case in which a Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2026
AI helped researchers exploit a Discourse flaw in under 72 hours, hijacking OpenAI staff accounts and exposing the risks of shared SSO. Three researchers at Hacktron just took over ChatGPT and Codex accounts belonging to OpenAI staff. The attack did not rely on phishing techniques or a leaked password. Through an image upload on OpenAI’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2026
A Brevo supply-chain attack used compromised Cloudflare access to inject malware into websites, potentially affecting over 100,000 sites. Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, is a French cloud-based marketing and customer communication platform whose clients include eBay, Louis Vuitton and Michelin. The company was first compromised on September 10, when attackers exploited a vulnerability in its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2026
Cyberattacks on oil tankers show how connected ships can expose navigation and critical systems, threatening safety, ports and global trade. U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas‑bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks hit the vessels while they were underway, according to U.S. officials. One of the ships was the VL Prosperity, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2026
Hunt.io links SpiceRAT, NodeEdgeRAT and NomadRAT to a four-year SilkParasite campaign targeting governments and critical sectors in Central Asia. Hunt.io and researcher Guy Yasur have traced a tight cluster of SpiceRAT command‑and‑control servers that predate and extend Bitdefender’s August 2026 SilkParasite report. The work doesn’t dissect malware samples; it maps the network side of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2026
The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as easy as renting a movie. Pick a target, pay a few dollars, watch the site go dark. The Justice Department just made that a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2026-76460 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting an API in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). The flaw […]
