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Security Affairs newsletter Round 97 – News of the week
Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2017

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded ...

Uber pays $9,000 bug bounty payoff for partner firm's vulnerability
Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2017

A security expert discovered a flaw in a ransomware protection service that opened Uber service, and many others, to cyber attacks. The Russian penetration tester Vladimir Ivanov from the security fi ...

Hong Kong brokers blackmailed by hackers with DDoS Attacks
Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2017

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission revealed some brokerage websites have been hit by DDoS attacks and blackmailed by crooks. The Hong Kong’s SFC (Securities and Futures Commission) con ...

CVE-2017-3792 - Cisco TelePresence MCU affected by a Remote Code Execution issue
Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2017

A critical flaw tracked as CVE-2017-3792 affects three different models of the CISCO TelePresence MCU platform, MCU 5300 Series, MSE 8510 and MCU 4500. A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017- ...

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Laws and regulations
Meta accused of violating DSA by failing to safeguard minors

The European Commission accuses Meta of failing to protect children, allowing users under 13 on Instagram and Facebook, in breach of the DSA rules. The European Commission has accused Meta of viol ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2026
Cyber Crime
Large-scale Roblox hacking operation shut down by Ukrainian authorities

Ukrainian police arrested three hackers who hijacked 610,000 Roblox accounts and sold them for $225,000 in profit. Police in Ukraine arrested three suspects accused of hacking over 610,000 Roblox ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2026
Hacking
CVE-2026-42208: LiteLLM bug exploited 36 hours after its disclosure

Attackers quickly exploited a critical LiteLLM flaw (CVE-2026-42208) to access and modify sensitive database data via SQL injection. Attackers rapidly exploited a critical vulnerability in LiteLLM ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2026
Security
Internet censorship index reveals Russia’s lead and widespread content blocking

Global study shows targeted internet censorship worldwide, with Russia leading; VPNs, news, and adult content are most frequently blocked categories. The Global Internet Censorship Index 2026 offe ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2026
Security
All supported cPanel versions hit by critical auth bug, now patched

cPanel fixed a critical authentication flaw that could let attackers access servers. The issue affects all supported versions. cPanel released security updates to address a critical authenticatio ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infra ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2026
Security
ShinyHunters exploit Anodot incident to target Vimeo

The video platform Vimeo confirmed a security breach via Anodot that exposed metadata, video titles, and some user emails. Vimeo said some user data was accessed after a breach at Anodot. Anodot i ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-3854 GitHub flaw enables remote code execution

Critical GitHub flaw CVE-2026-3854 lets attackers run code with a single git push, exploiting a command injection bug. Researchers found a critical vulnerability in GitHub, tracked as CVE-2026-385 ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2026
Intelligence
Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation

Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European polit ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2026
Security
Microsoft fixes Entra ID flaw enabling privilege escalation

Microsoft fixed a Microsoft Entra ID flaw where the Agent ID Administrator role could enable privilege escalation and account takeover. Microsoft addressed a flaw in Microsoft Entra ID that could ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2026
Malware
New Android spyware Morpheus linked to Italian surveillance firm

Osservatorio Nessuno uncovered Morpheus spyware spreading via fake Android apps to steal data, highlighting rising covert surveillance tools. The non-partisan, non-religious, nonprofit organizatio ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2026
Security
NCSC launches SilentGlass, a plug-in device to secure HDMI and DisplayPort links

NCSC’s SilentGlass blocks malicious HDMI/DisplayPort links, protecting monitors from hardware attacks. Now commercialized for global use. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has lau ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2026
Cyber Crime
Medtronic discloses security incident after ShinyHunters claimed theft of 9M+ records

Medtronic confirmed a breach of its IT systems after ShinyHunters claimed the theft of over 9 million records. Medtronic confirmed a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems after the hacker group ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Intelligence
Chinese spy posed as researcher in spear-phishing campaign targeting NASA to steal defense software

A Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher, tricking NASA staff in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive data tied to defense software and exports. A Chinese national ran a spear-phishing camp ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Security
LINKEDIN BROWSERGATE

BrowserGate claims LinkedIn secretly fingerprints users via extensions and device data, sending encrypted results to third parties for tracking. BrowserGate is an investigation conducted by Fairli ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Security
Firefox bug CVE-2026-6770 enabled cross-site tracking and Tor fingerprinting

CVE-2026-6770 let attackers fingerprint Firefox and Tor users, even in Private mode. Firefox 150 and Tor Browser 15.0.10 fixed it. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-6770, allowed attackers to f ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Malware
Fast16: Pre-Stuxnet malware that targeted precision engineering software

Fast16 is a pre-Stuxnet malware that tampered with precision software and spread itself. Evidence suggests links to U.S. operations during early cyber tensions. SentinelOne uncovered Fast16, a sab ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
APT
Italy moves to extradite Chinese national to the U.S. over hacking charges

Italy plans to extradite Xu Zewei to the U.S. over alleged hacks on COVID-19 research tied to state-backed operations. Italy is moving to extradite Xu Zewei, the Chinese national arrested in 2025 ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Data Breach
U.S. utility giant Itron discloses a security breach

Itron detected unauthorized access to part of its IT environment on April 13, 2026, and launched incident response and notified authorities. Itron disclosed a cyber incident involving unauthorized ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026
Hacking
Critical CrowdStrike LogScale bug could have allowed file access, but no exploitation was observed

CrowdStrike fixed CVE-2026-40050 in LogScale self-hosted, a critical flaw allowing unauthenticated file access via path traversal. The flaw was never exploited in the wild. CrowdStrike recently di ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2026