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Information Warfare - Iran vs America. Why buy a weapon when I have a keyboard?
Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2015

A newly disclosed secret report illustrates the tightening of cyber dispute between the United States and Iran , both for spying and sabotage. Since Robert Tappan Morris in 1988 created the first wor ...

Crooks use seemingly harmless help files to serve CryptoWall ransomware
Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2015

Experts at Bitdefender revealed that crooks used seemingly harmless help files to distribute a variant of the popular ransomware CryptoWall. The cybercrime never ceases to surprise, every time we dis ...

Cyber Experts in North Korea Target the West and Especially Infrastructure of Critical Importance
Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2015

North Korea holds an impressive army of cyber warriors, with over 3,000 sophisticated professionals. According to the claims of people who have escaped to South Korea, their main target is none other ...

FBI investigating apparent ISIS defacements on Western websites
Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2015

A number of Western websites were hacked over the weekend, the sites were defaced with messages claiming the ISIS as the responsible. The FBI is investigating a series of cyber attacks occurred over ...

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Data Breach
Korean Air discloses data breach after the hack of its catering and duty-free supplier

Korean Air employee discloses a data breach after a hack of its catering and duty-free supplier, KC&D, affecting thousands of staff. Korean Air suffered a data breach after its in-flight cater ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
Hacking
MongoBleed flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild

A recently disclosed MongoDB flaw (MongoBleed) is under active exploitation, with over 87,000 potentially vulnerable instances exposed worldwide. A newly disclosed MongoDB vulnerability, tracked a ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
APT
Evasive Panda cyberespionage campaign uses DNS poisoning to install MgBot backdoor

China-linked APT Evasive Panda used DNS poisoning to deliver the MgBot backdoor in targeted cyber-espionage attacks in Türkiye, China, and India. Kaspersky researchers spotted the China-linked AP ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
Data Breach
Condé Nast faces major data breach: 2.3M WIRED records leaked, 40M more at risk

Hacker claims Condé Nast breach, leaking 2.3M WIRED subscriber records and threatening to expose up to 40M more from other brands. A hacker known as “Lovely” claims to have leaked personal da ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2025
Crypto
Stolen LastPass backups enable crypto theft through 2025

Stolen vault backups from the 2022 LastPass breach are still being cracked, allowing attackers to steal crypto as late as 2025. The blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs warns that encrypted vault ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2025
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 77

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Choose Your Fighter: A New Stage in the ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 556 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 December 28, 2025
Hacking
LangChain core vulnerability allows prompt injection and data exposure

A critical flaw in LangChain Core could allow attackers to steal sensitive secrets and manipulate LLM responses via prompt injection. LangChain Core (langchain-core) is a key Python package in the ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2025
Malware
NPM package with 56,000 downloads compromises WhatsApp accounts

An NPM package with over 56,000 downloads stole WhatsApp credentials, hid its activity, and installed a backdoor. Koi Security researchers warned that the NPM package ‘Lotusbail’, a WhatsApp W ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2025
Cyber Crime
Trust Wallet warns users to update Chrome extension after $7M security loss

Trust Wallet urged users to update its Chrome extension after a security incident caused about $7 million in losses. Trust Wallet warned users to update its Google Chrome extension after a securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Hacktivism
Pro-Russian group Noname057 claims cyberattack on La Poste services

Pro-Russian hacking group Noname057 claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that recently disrupted La Poste's digital banking and online services. This week, the French national postal service ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Data Breach
Aflac confirms June data breach affecting over 22 million customers

A June data breach exposed the personal information of more than 22 million Aflac customers, the company confirmed. A data breach in June exposed the information of more than 22 million Aflac cust ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Data Breach
Spotify cracks down on unlawful scraping of 86 million songs

Spotify shut down accounts after Anna’s Archive scraped and published data on 86 million songs, confirming action against unlawful scraping. Spotify disabled user accounts after an open-source g ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2025
Security
Five-year-old Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN vulnerability actively exploited

Fortinet reported active exploitation of a five-year-old FortiOS SSL VPN flaw, abused in the wild under specific configurations. Fortinet researchers observed "recent abuse" of a five-year-old sec ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2025
Security
High-severity MongoDB flaw CVE-2025-14847 could lead to server takeover

MongoDB addressed a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution on vulnerable servers. MongoDB addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-1 ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2025
Cyber Crime
FBI seized ‘web3adspanels.org’ hosting stolen logins

The U.S. seized the 'web3adspanels.org' domain and database used by cybercriminals to store stolen bank login credentials. The FBI seized the domain web3adspanels[.]org and its database after cybe ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2025
Laws and regulations
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bans foreign-made drones over national security concerns

The FCC announced a ban on drones and critical components made in foreign countries, citing national security concerns. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has banned drones a ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2025
Laws and regulations
Italian regulator rules Apple’s ATT feature limits competition

Italy fined Apple €98.6 million, ruling its App Tracking Transparency feature limited competition in the App Store. Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple €98.6 million ($116 million) for r ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2025
Security
La Poste outage after a cyber attack disrupts digital banking and online services

La Poste said a major network incident took its systems offline, disrupting digital banking and online services for millions of users. The French national postal service La Poste confirmed a major ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2025
Data Breach
Red Hat GitLab breach exposes data of 21,000 Nissan customers

Hackers breached Red Hat’s GitLab, stealing data of 21,000 customers; Nissan confirmed exposure via a self-managed GitLab instance. Japanese carmaker Nissan disclosed a data breach tied to a sel ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2025