Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2026
Researchers linked the Flying Eagle Android RAT to fake police apps, uncovering 170 servers in a growing cybercrime ecosystem. Hunt.io researchers and independent journalist NetAskari started with a fraudulent Android app impersonating a Chinese Provincial Public Security Bureau service and ended up mapping a sprawling criminal ecosystem built around a leaked Android RAT framework called […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2026
Analysis found eSIM Plus and Nicegram share a Belarus-linked codebase, while eSIM Plus routes data and calls through Russian services. Two popular apps available in EU app stores, Nicegram, with over 50 million downloads, and eSIM Plus, with over 1 million, are presented to users as Lithuanian products. The Mysterium VPN Research Team pulled apart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2026
RedWing: The Android Banking Trojan You Can Rent on Telegram for Less Than a Coffee Subscription Zimperium’s zLabs team has uncovered RedWing, an Android spyware operation sold as a subscription service through Telegram, with links to Russian threat actors and apparent roots in the Oblivion malware family. It comes with documentation, tutorial videos, a referral […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
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
June 29, 2026
WhatsApp will introduce usernames later this year, letting its 3 billion users connect without sharing phone numbers. WhatsApp has over three billion users, and it’s finally letting them talk to each other without exchanging phone numbers. The company announced this week that usernames are coming later this year, and reservations are open now. The problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
Russian authorities used Cellebrite tools to unlock an activist’s iPhone and analyze private data despite canceled support, raising abuse concerns. On May 31, 2021, Russian security services pulled opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov off a flight at St. Petersburg airport and confiscated his iPhone 12 and MacBook. He never consented to a search and never gave […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2026
Meta says NSO violated a court injunction by targeting WhatsApp users again through phishing campaigns and test accounts. Last year, WhatsApp won a landmark case against NSO Group, the Israeli spyware vendor behind Pegasus, and secured a permanent court injunction barring the company from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users again. The court was unambiguous: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2026
Russia’s FSB claims foreign intelligence planted malware on senior officials’ phones to intercept calls and activate cameras. No technical evidence, no country named. On June 2, 2026, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published a statement claiming it had uncovered and documented a large-scale foreign intelligence operation targeting the mobile devices of senior Russian officials. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2026
A zero-click attack targeting iPhones on iOS 16 hijacked WhatsApp accounts without linked devices, warnings, or user interaction. There is a particular kind of security incident that is harder to explain than most: your WhatsApp account is sending messages you did not write, asking your contacts for money transfers, and when you check the “Linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2026
Canadian authorities arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man accused of running the Kimwolf DDoS botnet. The US is now seeking extradition. US authorities have charged 23-year-old Jacob Butler (aka “Dort”), an Ottawa resident, for allegedly operating the recently disrupted Kimwolf botnet. Authorities arrested the suspect in Canada, he could face up to 10 years in prison […]
