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A picture of the Iran threat
Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2012

The situation in Iran is becoming really critic, time go by and every diplomatic solution is not realizable. We have western countries disturbed by an aggressive policy of the government in Tehran, de ...

What is a digital signature? Fundamental principles
Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2012

Private companies and governments agencies all around the word make huge investments for the automation of their processes and in the management of the electronic documentation. The main requiremen ...

The Unknowns, hacker's revenge in the name of security
Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2012

It's happened, another group of hacker named The Unknowns has hacked several organizations, , including NASA and the U.S. Air Force, and posted evidence of their actions. The complete list has been p ...

FBI on Bitcoin,between cybercrime opportunity & digital choice
Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2012

Law enforcement, FBI first, are worried by the diffusion of the Bitcoin network that could be used by groups of criminals for several activities. The main problem related to the payment system is ...

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Security
Denmark and Norway investigate Yutong bus security flaw amid rising tech fears

Denmark and Norway probe a security flaw in Chinese-made Yutong buses, deepening European fears over reliance on Chinese tech and potential cyber risks. Bus operators in Denmark and Norway are urg ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025
Uncategorized
Agentic AI in Cybersecurity: Beyond Triage to Strategic Threat Hunting

With a 4M cybersecurity worker shortage, agentic AI helps SOCs move beyond triage, enabling proactive security once thought impossible. With a deficit of 4 million cybersecurity workers worldwide, ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025
Malware
Nine NuGet packages disrupt DBs and industrial systems with time-delayed payloads

Nine NuGet packages by “shanhai666” can deploy delayed payloads to disrupt databases and industrial systems. Socket's Threat Research Team discovered nine malicious NuGet packages, published b ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025
Hacking
QNAP fixed multiple zero-days in its software demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2025

QNAP patched seven zero-days used at Pwn2Own 2025 affecting QTS, QuTS hero, Hyper Data Protector, Malware Remover, and HBS 3. Taiwanese vendor QNAP patched seven zero-day vulnerabilities exploited ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025
Hacking
AI chat privacy at risk: Microsoft details Whisper Leak side-channel attack

Microsoft uncovered Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that lets network snoopers infer AI chat topics despite encryption, risking user privacy. Microsoft revealed a new side-channel attack calle ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2025
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 70

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Ass ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 549 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 Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2025
APT
China-linked hackers target U.S. non-profit in long-term espionage campaign

A China-linked group targeted a U.S. non-profit to gain long-term access, part of wider attacks on U.S. entities tied to policy matters. China-linked hackers breached a U.S. policy-focused nonprof ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2025
Security
A new Italian citizen was targeted with Paragon’s Graphite spyware. We have a serious problem

An Italian political adviser was targeted with Paragon’s Graphite spyware, becoming the fifth Italian in the ongoing government surveillance activity. Italian political adviser Francesco Nicodem ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2025
Security
LANDFALL spyware exploited Samsung zero-day CVE-2025-21042 in Middle East attacks

A now-patched Samsung Galaxy flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-21042, was exploited as a zero-day to deploy LANDFALL spyware in targeted attacks in Middle East. Samsung patched a flaw exploited as a zero- ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2025
Security
Cisco fixes critical UCCX flaw allowing Root command execution

Cisco patched a critical flaw in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that allowed attackers to execute commands with root privileges. Cisco released security updates to address a cr ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2025
Security
Cisco became aware of a new attack variant against Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices

Cisco warns of a new attack variant exploiting CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 in Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices. Cisco warned of a new attack variant targeting vulnerable Secure Firewall A ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2025
Malware
Google sounds alarm on self-modifying AI malware

Google warns malware now uses AI to mutate, adapt, and collect data during execution, boosting evasion and persistence. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warn of a new generation of malw ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2025
Hacking
Alleged Russia-linked Curly COMrades exploit Windows Hyper-V to evade EDRs

Curly COMrades threat actors exploit Windows Hyper-V to hide Linux VMs, evade EDR tools, and deploy custom malware undetected. Bitdefender researchers, aided by Georgia’s CERT, uncovered that Cu ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2025
Security
SonicWall blames state-sponsored hackers for September security breach

Cybersecurity firm SonicWall attributed the September security breach exposing firewall configuration files to state-sponsored hackers. In September, SonicWall urged customers to reset credentials ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2025
Laws and regulations
U.S. sanctioned North Korea bankers for laundering funds linked to cyberattacks and peapons program

U.S. sanctions North Korea bankers and firms accused of laundering cybercrime funds used to finance the country’s nuclear weapons program. The U.S. Government has imposed sanctions on several No ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2025
Cyber Crime
Former cybersecurity employees attempted to extort five U.S. companies in 2023 using BlackCat ransomware attacks

U.S. prosecutors charged three Florida men for using BlackCat ransomware to hack and extort five U.S. companies in 2023. U.S. prosecutors charged Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds Gladinet CentreStack, and CWP Control Web Panel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Gladinet CentreStack, and CWP Control Web Panel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and I ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2025
Cyber Crime
Nine arrested in €600M crypto laundering bust across Europe

A coordinated Eurojust-led operation led to nine arrests in Cyprus, Spain, and Germany for laundering €600M in crypto fraud. Authorities in France, Belgium, and Cyprus arrested nine people in a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2025
Security
Google fixed a critical remote code execution in Android

Google’s November 2025 Android update fixes two flaws in the System component, including a critical remote code execution issue. Google’s November 2025 Android security updates addressed two v ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2025