Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Ray-Project Ray vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62593 (CVSS score of 9.4), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2025-62593 is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ray, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2026
Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-August, a previously undocumented Linux botnet that’s been active since July 2026. The bot borrows Mirai‘s DDoS engine but adds encrypted command-and-control communications, an SSH brute-force scanner, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
SafePal says a breach exposed personal data of 39,798 customers, but not wallet credentials, private keys, seed phrases, or payment information. SafePal disclosed a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after hackers exploited a vulnerability in its order-tracking plugin. The flaw exposed information linked to orders placed between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
The SANDCLOCK LiteLLM supply-chain attack exposed credentials across 2,038 repositories, affecting technology, finance, healthcare, retail and more. Resecurity (USA) estimated the most affected sectors by the “SANDCLOCK” backdoor, which was planted as a result of the code repository compromise. According to cybersecurity experts, LiteLLM / TeamPCP Supply-Chain Attack will have long-lasting consequences. By compromising a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly hid AI prompt in a court filing, instructing any AI system that read it to rule in his favor. The July 26 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
A seller claims 1.7M McDonald’s employee records were stolen from Azure. An 8,000-row sample appears genuine, but its age and full size remain unconfirmed. A seller on a data-trading forum posted an 8,000-row sample this week claiming it came from McDonald’s own Azure tenant, part of a supposed 1.7 million-record employee directory obtained using stolen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
Akira attackers used Safe Mode to disable EDR before deploying ransomware, but memory issues caused the encryptor to fail. An Akira ransomware affiliate broke into a company through an MFA-less SonicWall VPN on August 4, stole credentials and file shares, and then rebooted the compromised host into Safe Mode with Networking to kill the security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2026
Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication issues. Organizations using Threema On-Prem were not affected, as their deployments run on their own infrastructure. Threema is a Swiss paid secure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2026
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Kimsuky Integrates AI into Attack Operations, From AI-Generated Decoy Documents to a Local LLM ShieldBreak – August 2026 disclosure Kimwolf v7: An Evolution of the Kimwolf Botnet CISA, FBI and Partners Warn Organizations of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2026
Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect. HoneyMyte, also known as Mustang Panda, has pushed its CoolClient backdoor another step deeper into Windows. Kaspersky’s latest analysis shows a new variant that can deploy a signed kernel-mode driver as a Windows […]
