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Insider perspectives on the status of global cyber safety and security status (Part 2 of 4)
Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2012

Article published on The Malta Indipendent Critical infrastructure protection, StuxNet, exploding computers, blackouts, collapsing banking systems, and cyber war!! None of us have escaped the he ...

Concerns for Chinese firms and the cyberespionage
Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2012

We often discuss about warfare and cyberespionage, focusing on the usage of technology to steal intellectual property of foreign states. Of course the countries that have valuable technology skills ar ...

Syria,uncomfortable assumptions on the control of dissidents
Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2012

The public opinion is daily informed regarding the situation in Syria that is still critic, according UN representative in the country several clashes are undermining a virtual ceasefire. Deputy Re ...

Zeus P2P variant against Facebook,Hotmail,Yahoo & Google Mail
Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2012

The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of  a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P ...

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Laws and regulations
Google Fined €890M Under EU Digital Markets Act Over Search and Play Store Practices

EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny. The European Commission hit Google with two ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
Hacking
Thailand's Ministry of Finance Targeted With Hermes AI Agent Running Unattended, Hades Implant Staged

Hunt.io uncovered a cyber-espionage attack on Thailand’s Finance Ministry using Hermes AI agent and Hades malware for reconnaissance and persistence. Researchers at Hunt.io have uncovered an int ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
Cyber warfare
UAC-0099 Is Now Hiding Malware Inside a Fake Notepad++ Plugin to Target Ukrainian Organizations

UAC-0099 delivers malware via a fake Notepad++ plugin after phishing, using a loader that sabotages itself if run without the correct arguments to hinder analysis. CERT-UA published a new advisory ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
The AI Trust Paradox: Businesses Are Racing Ahead, but Consumers Are Hesitating

Artificial intelligence adoption is soaring, but consumer trust lags. Transparency, human oversight, and clear AI use cases are key to closing the trust gap. Businesses are rapidly adopting AI, w ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
APT
US Agencies Warn of Laundry Bear Campaign Targeting Unpatched Zimbra Servers

US agencies warn Russian group Laundry Bear is exploiting a patched Zimbra flaw to steal email accounts from organizations running unpatched servers. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint and Check Point SmartConsole flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SharePoint and Check Point flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2026
Malware
Chaos ransomware deploys browser-based msaRAT to evade network detection

Cisco Talos uncovered msaRAT, a Chaos ransomware RAT that hides C2 traffic by routing it through Chrome or Edge using the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Cisco Talos disclosed msaRAT, a Rust-based remot ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2026
Security
Google Released Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI, a Specialized AI Model for Vulnerability Hunting

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, an AI model for vulnerability discovery and patching, available only to governments and trusted partners. Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.5 Flas ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2026
Hacking
Check Point patches actively exploited SmartConsole authentication bypass flaw

Check Point addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, in SmartConsole that is being actively exploited. Check Point has released security updates to fix multiple ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections

Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-8933, a high-severity Ubuntu flaw that lets local attackers gain root privileges through a race condition in snap-confine. Qualys has disclosed a high-severity local priv ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026
Hacking
Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension bug enabled silent WhatsApp data theft

Adobe patched CVE-2026-48294, a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could let attackers steal WhatsApp Web chats by luring users to a webpage. Guardio Labs researcher Shaked Biner disclose ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds DD-WRT, Langflow and WordPress flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds DD-WRT, Langflow, and WordPress flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI AI models exploited zero-days to reach Hugging Face in benchmark test

OpenAI confirmed its AI models exploited zero-days during internal testing, reaching Hugging Face servers in an unintended real-world cyberattack. OpenAI admitted on July 21 that its own AI models ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026
Security
Public PoC triggers active exploitation of critical SharePoint RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-50522

Critical SharePoint RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-50522 is under active exploitation after the release of a PoC exploit code. A critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50522 ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2026
Security
Zimbra 10.1.20 patches multiple security issues, including a critical command injection bug

Zimbra patched nine flaws in version 10.1.20, including a critical SNMP monitoring command injection issue enabling arbitrary command execution. Zimbra released version 10.1.20 to fix nine securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2026
Cyber Crime
Qilin Ransomware Affiliates Abuse CVE-2026-0257 to Gain Unauthorized VPN Access

Qilin ransomware exploits the PAN-OS GlobalProtect flaw CVE-2026-0257 to gain unauthorized VPN access to unpatched networks. Arctic Wolf researchers warn that the Qilin ransomware gang is exploiti ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2026
Intelligence
Dutch Intelligence Warns Russia Uses Hacked IP Cameras for Military Espionage

Dutch intelligence says Russia hacks IP cameras to monitor NATO military logistics and weapons shipments to Ukraine. The Netherlands' AIVD and MIVD, the civilian and military intelligence services ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2026
Security
Critical 7-Zip Flaw Allows Code Execution by Opening Crafted XZ-Compressed Files. Update it now!

7-Zip fixed a vulnerability that could let attackers run code by tricking users into opening malicious XZ-compressed archive files. 7-Zip released version 26.02 to address a remote code execution ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2026
Hacking
CVE-2026-42533: Critical NGINX Bug Could Turn HTTP Requests Into Server Takeovers

F5 fixes critical nginx flaw CVE-2026-42533 that can crash servers and, in some cases, allow remote code execution through crafted HTTP requests. F5 released patches for a critical nginx vulnerabi ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Turned Into Attackers: Hugging Face Reveals Autonomous Intrusion Campaign

Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached part of its production infrastructure and accessed internal data and service credentials. Hugging Face is one of the world's leading open-source A ...

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2026