Security

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Microsoft revokes 200+ certificates abused by Vanilla Tempest in fake Teams campaign

Microsoft revoked 200+ certificates used by Vanilla Tempest to sign fake Teams installers spreading Oyster backdoor and Rhysida ransomware. Microsoft revoked over 200 certificates used by the cybercrime group Vanilla Tempest (aka VICE SPIDER and Vice Society) to sign fake Teams installers spreading the Oyster backdoor and Rhysida ransomware. The threat actor has been active […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
PowerSchool hacker got four years in prison

Matthew D. Lane, a Massachusetts student, got four years in prison for hacking and extorting $3M from PowerSchool and another company. A Massachusetts student, Matthew D. Lane, was sentenced to four years in prison for hacking and extorting about $3 million from two companies, including PowerSchool. In May, Lane pleaded guilty to hacking two U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54253 (CVSS score 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms is a component of Adobe […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
China-linked APT Jewelbug targets Russian IT provider in rare cross-nation cyberattack

China-linked APT Jewelbug targeted a Russian IT provider for five months in 2025, showing Russia remains exposed to Chinese cyber espionage. China-linked threat actor Jewelbug (aka CL-STA-0049, Earth Alux, and REF7707) carried out a five-month intrusion on a Russian IT service provider, marking its expansion beyond Southeast Asia and South America. The campaign, reported by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
U.S. CISA adds SKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds OracSKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added OracSKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Qilin Ransomware announced new victims

Resecurity’s new report details how the Qilin RaaS group relies on global bulletproof hosting networks to support its extortion operations. The following new report by Resecurity will explore the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation’s reliance on bullet-proof-hosting (BPH) infrastructures, with an emphasis on a network of rogue providers based in different parts of the world. Qilin […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
A sophisticated nation-state actor breached F5 systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed flaw

F5 disclosed that a sophisticated nation-state actor breached its systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed product vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity firm F5 disclosed that a highly sophisticated nation-state actor in August 2025 threat actors breached its systems and stole BIG-IP’s source code and information related to undisclosed vulnerabilities. The attackers accessed the company’s BIG-IP […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
SAP fixed maximum-severity bug in NetWeaver

SAP addressed 13 new flaws, including a maximum severity vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver, which could lead to arbitrary command execution. SAP addressed 13 new vulnerabilities, including a maximum severity issue, tracked as CVE-2025-42944 (CVSS score of 10.0) in SAP NetWeaver. The vulnerability is an insecure deserialization that could lead to arbitrary command execution. “Due to a deserialization […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Unencrypted satellites expose global communications

Researchers found nearly half of geostationary satellites leak unencrypted data, exposing consumer, corporate, and military communications. A group of researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland found nearly half of geostationary satellites transmit unencrypted data, exposing sensitive consumer, corporate, and military communications to interception. The researchers used an $800 satellite receiver for […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Flax Typhoon APT exploited ArcGIS server for over a year as a backdoor

China-linked cyberespionage group Flax Typhoon hijacked an ArcGIS system for over a year and used it as a backdoor. China-linked APT group Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda or RedJuliett) compromised an ArcGIS system for over a year, using it as a backdoor. ArcGIS, a key GIS platform for mapping and analysis, supports vital services like […]