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Russia, cyber repression in the social networks era
Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2011

Several times in these posts we have discussed of the importance of social media in recent years. Social Media are the valuable carrier to disclose political decisions taken by central governments. Th ...

Malware attacks Georgia Hospital, have we learnt the lesson?
Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2011

The medical industry is historically one of the sectors that has benefited more than others for the introduction of technology. Devices allow ever more complex operations every day to millions of pati ...

The thin line between monitoring and censorship
Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2011

During the last year we have seen the consolidation of the tendency to use social media as a major vector for the exchange of information. The imperative is to be social, no matter if you need to shar ...

Duqu - The worst may still have to come for critical infrastructures
Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2011

Duqu, a name that we are reading since several months and with whom we have called a malware that scares the scientific community for some features we will shortly describe. I wrote a lot in this blog ...

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Malware
OnyxC2 Malware-as-a-Service Offers Enterprise-Grade Data Theft

OnyxC2 is a MaaS stealer targeting 210+ apps, using DLL sideloading, encrypted payloads, and remote access features to evade detection. OnyxC2 appeared on a cybercrime forum earlier this year and ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2026
Security
Chaotic Eclipse Strikes Again: New Zero-Day Unlocks BitLocker in Four Hours of Research

GreatXML bypasses BitLocker via Defender offline scan artifacts, giving SYSTEM shell in Recovery Mode. No patch exists. Any machine that ran an offline scan is vulnerable. On June 10, security res ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2026
Security
Fortinet patched a new critical FortiSandbox flaw

Fortinet patched a critical FortiSandbox vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely execute commands via crafted HTTP requests. Fortinet released security updates to address s ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2026
Malware
JDY Botnet Evolves After KV Takedown, Targets Military Networks

JDY botnet scans SOHO/IoT devices globally to map services and targets, especially US military networks. Lumen's Black Lotus Labs reported the resurgence of the JDY botnet, a covert reconnaissance ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2026
APT
Russian APTs Still Exploiting Patched WinRAR Flaw CVE-2025-8088

Despite a 2025 patch, Russian-linked groups still exploit a WinRAR flaw (CVE-2025-8088) to deploy malware via phishing archives. CVE-2025-8088 is a path traversal flaw in WinRAR that lets an attac ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2026
Security
Chaotic Eclipse Unveils RoguePlanet Exploit Targeting Fully Patched Windows

The researcher Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC for the RoguePlanet Microsoft Defender zero-day, which can grant SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Security researcher Chaotic Eclip ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2026
Malware
“AI Worms”, researchers demonstrate autonomous malware capable of adapting to any online device

A study by the University of Toronto shows how artificial intelligence can power autonomous worms capable of tailoring attacks against Windows, Linux and IoT devices. A group of researchers from t ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2026
Security
France's Government Messaging App Tchap Got Breached

France’s government chat app Tchap was breached after a single account was compromised, exposing messages and data from public channels. Tchap, the encrypted messaging platform developed by the ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2026
Security
Microsoft Releases Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday With 208 CVEs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2026 fix a record 208 CVEs, including one actively exploited zero-day and multiple critical RCE flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates fo ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Uncategorized
Critical Veeam RCE Flaw Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over Backup Servers

Veeam addressed a critical RCE vulnerability flaw in Backup & Replication that lets low-privileged domain users take control of backup servers. Veeam has patched a critical remote code executi ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Malware
Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories

The Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repos, spreading via AI coding tools and stealing cloud credentials from developers and CI/CD systems. A self-replicating worm called Miasma has com ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Hacking
Google fixes the fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026

Google fixed a new Chrome zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, in the V8 JavaScript engine, which is already being exploited in the wild. Google released emergency updates to address a new Chrome ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Hacking
CVE-2026-23111: Linux nf_tables Flaw Enables Root Exploits

A Linux kernel nf_tables bug lets local users gain root via use-after-free caused by a logic error; patch removes a single “!”. CVE-2026-23111 lives in nf_tables, the Linux kernel's packet fil ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2026
Security
Meta Accuses NSO of Violating WhatsApp Court Injunction

Meta says NSO violated a court injunction by targeting WhatsApp users again through phishing campaigns and test accounts. Last year, WhatsApp won a landmark case against NSO Group, the Israeli spy ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Security
Everest Forms Pro WordPress Flaw is Handing Attackers Admin Access

Hackers exploit CVE-2026-3300 in Everest Forms Pro to inject PHP via form fields, creating rogue admin accounts. 29,300 attempts blocked. Researcher h0xilo submitted a flaw in Everest Forms Pro f ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms

UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Thr ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Meta AI Recovery Tool Flaw Exposed 20,000+ Instagram Accounts

A flaw in Meta's AI-powered Instagram recovery tool exposed over 20,000 accounts, letting attackers reset passwords and take over profiles. Meta's High Touch Support tool, known as HTS, was design ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Uncategorized
IoT Botnet C0XMO Adds Competitor-Killing Capability

C0XMO is a new Gafgyt botnet variant exploiting old router flaws, spreading across IoT devices, killing rivals, and enabling large-scale DDoS attacks. In March 2026, FortiGuard Labs discovered a n ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026