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Panera Bread left millions of customer records exposed online for months
Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2018

The website belonging to the Panera Bread restaurant chain, Panerabread.com, exposed personal information in plain text for months. The company has more than 2,100 retail locations in the United Stat ...

Project Kalamata - Apple will replace Intel processors in Macs with its custom designed chips
Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018

In the wake of the discovery of severe flaws in Intel chips, so-called Meltdown andSpectre vulnerabilities, Apple announced it plans to use custom-designed ARM chips in Mac computers starting as e ...

Google to banish cryptocurrency mining extensions from official Chrome Web Store
Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018

Google will ban cryptocurrency mining extensions from the official Chrome Web Store after finding many of them abusing users' resources without consent. The number of malicious extensions is ra ...

Grindr shared people' HIV status with other companies
Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018

An analysis conducted by the Norwegian research nonprofit SINTEF revealed that the popular Grindr gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. Grindr gay-dating app ma ...

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Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Ivanti EPMM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Ivanti EPMM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2026
Cyber Crime
Empire Market co-founder faces 10 years to life after guilty plea

Empire Market co-founder Raheim Hamilton pleaded guilty to U.S. drug conspiracy charges in Chicago, facing a mandatory 10 years to life in prison. Raheim Hamilton (30) of Virginia, co-creator of t ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2026
Security
SolarWinds addressed four critical Web Help Desk flaws

SolarWinds patched six Web Help Desk vulnerabilities, including four critical flaws exploitable without authentication for RCE or auth bypass. SolarWinds released security updates to address six W ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2026
Security
Google targets IPIDEA in crackdown on global residential proxy networks

Google disrupted IPIDEA, a major residential proxy network that enrolled users’ devices via SDKs embedded in mobile and desktop apps. Google and partners disrupted the IPIDEA residential proxy n ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2026
Security
Nation-state and criminal actors leverage WinRAR flaw in attacks

Multiple threat actors exploited a now-patched critical WinRAR flaw to gain initial access and deliver various malicious payloads. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) revealed that multiple th ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2026
Security
OpenSSL issued security updates to fix 12 flaws, including Remote Code Execution

OpenSSL released security updates that address 12 flaws, including a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability. OpenSSL issued security updates fixing 12 vulnerabilities in the open-source ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in multiple Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in multiple Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2026
Security
Fortinet patches actively exploited FortiOS SSO auth bypass (CVE-2026-24858)

Fortinet released fixes for a critical FortiOS SSO auth bypass (CVE-2026-24858) actively exploited, impacting FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer. Fortinet started rolling out patches for a c ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2026
Hacking
PackageGate bugs let attackers bypass protections in NPM, PNPM, VLT, and Bun

Koi researchers found “PackageGate” flaws in NPM, PNPM, VLT, and Bun that let attackers perform supply chain attacks and run malicious code. Security firm Koi uncovered a set of vulnerabilitie ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2026
Security
WhatsApp rolls out Strict Account settings to strengthen protection for high-risk users

Meta announced new Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp to better protect high-risk users from advanced cyber attacks. Meta announced new Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp to enhance the security ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026
Hacking
Shadowserver finds 6,000+ likely vulnerable SmarterMail servers exposed online

Shadowserver researchers found 6,000+ SmarterMail servers exposed online and likely vulnerable to a critical auth bypass flaw. Nonprofit security organization Shadowserver reported that over 6,000 ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Office, GNU InetUtils, SmarterTools SmarterMail, and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Office, GNU InetUtils, SmarterTools SmarterMail, and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026
Malware
Amnesia RAT deployed in multi-stage phishing attacks against Russian users

A multi-stage phishing campaign targets users in Russia with ransomware and Amnesia RAT using fake business documents as lures. FortiGuard Labs researchers uncovered a multi-stage malware campaign ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026
Hacking
Dormakaba flaws allow to access major organizations’ doors

Researchers found over 20 flaws in Dormakaba access systems that could let attackers remotely unlock doors at major organizations. Researchers from SEC Consult discovered and fixed more than 20 se ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026
Hacking
Emergency Microsoft update fixes in-the-wild Office zero-day

Microsoft issued emergency updates to fix an actively exploited Office zero-day, CVE-2026-21509, affecting Office 2016–2024 and Microsoft 365 Apps. Microsoft released out-of-band security update ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2026
Data Breach
ShinyHunters claims 2 Million Crunchbase records; company confirms breach

Crunchbase confirms a data breach after cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen over 2 million personal records. Crunchbase confirmed a data breach after the cybercriminal group ShinyH ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2026
Cyber Crime
Energy sector targeted in multi-stage phishing and BEC campaign using SharePoint

Microsoft warns of a multi-stage phishing and BEC campaign hitting energy firms, abusing SharePoint links and inbox rules to steal credentials. Microsoft reports an active multi-stage phishing cam ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2026
APT
North Korea–linked KONNI uses AI to build stealthy malware tooling

Check Point links an active phishing campaign to North Korea–aligned KONNI, targeting developers with fake blockchain project docs and using an AI-written PowerShell backdoor. Check Point Resear ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2026
Breaking News
Russia-linked Sandworm APT implicated in major cyber attack on Poland’s power grid

Russia-linked APT Sandworm launched what was described as the largest cyber attack on Poland’s power grid in Dec 2025. ESET linked a late-2025 cyberattack on Poland’s energy system to the Russ ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2026
Data Breach
Nike is investigating a possible data breach, after WorldLeaks claims

Nike is investigating a possible cyber incident after the WorldLeaks group claimed it stole data from the company’s systems. Nike is probing a potential security breach after the WorldLeaks cybe ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2026