Security

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2026
Novo Nordisk Confirms Data Theft: What Attackers Took and What They Didn’t

Novo Nordisk suffered a cyberattack where clinical trial data was copied. The breach is confirmed, but no threat actor has claimed responsibility. The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk disclosed a cybersecurity breach that resulted in unauthorized access to internal IT systems and the theft of personal data. The company sells some of the most in-demand […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2026
Palo Alto Warns of Exploitation of VPN Bypass Exploits (CVE-2026-0257) in PAN-OS Flaw

Palo Alto Networks warns that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS flaw that lets unauthorized users bypass authentication and establish VPN connections. Palo Alto Networks has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS authentication bypass vulnerability affecting GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability on May 13. Two weeks later, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2026
Supply Chain Attack Hits Popular WordPress Plugins Through Awesome Motive CDN

Attackers compromised Awesome Motive CDN files, backdooring WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage. Sansec researchers discovered an active supply chain attack hitting WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage, three plugins operated by Awesome Motive, one of the largest WordPress plugin companies in the world. The malicious JavaScript wasn’t sitting on any victim’s server. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2026
Infostealers, AI, and a 90% Affiliate Cut Fuel The Gentlemen group’s Rise

The Gentlemen ransomware used infostealer credentials, AI tools, and affiliates to hit 483 victims across 66 countries in under a year. The Gentlemen surfaced as a ransomware operation in September 2025 and by June 13, 2026 had listed 483 victims on their dark-web leak site, 380 of them in 2026 alone. That makes them the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2026
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 101

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter IronWorm: Shai-Hulud’s rustier cousin Trojanized ai-sdk-ollama Delivers Miasma, a Self-Replicating npm Worm via binding.gyp  Inside the Cross-Platform Propagation of a New Gafgyt Variant C0XMO  Using AI Agents to Analyze Malware on REMnux   The Miasma […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2026
Security Affairs newsletter Round 581 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Washington Pulled the Plug on Anthropic ‘s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The Rest of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2026
Washington Pulled the Plug on Anthropic ‘s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The Rest of the World Is Watching.

Anthropic disputes restrictions on Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the decision lacks transparency and isn’t based on clear technical evidence. On Friday June 12 at 5:21pm ET, Anthropic received a letter from the US Commerce Department, signed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and drafted with officials from the Bureau of Industry and Security. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools is the underlying technology platform […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Sentry flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and urges patching by June 14

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Sentry flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Ivanti Sentry flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-10520 (CVSS score of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Ivanti Sentry is a secure gateway appliance that sits between an organization’s internal […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2026
Oracle PeopleSoft RCE Flaw Used as Zero-Day in Ongoing ShinyHunters Campaign

ShinyHunters exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to breach over 100 organizations, mostly universities, before a patch was available. Mandiant and Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published an analysis of an active ShinyHunters campaign on June 11, one day after Oracle finally issued an advisory for the vulnerability being exploited. The gap matters: the activity ran […]