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CISA Red Team Fully Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs
Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026

CISA red teams fully compromised two critical infrastructure orgs. One SOC isolated hosts in minutes; the other never detected the breach. CISA published an advisory (AA26-237A) documenting two si ...

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FBI Seizes China-Linked Hacking Platforms QScan and QTRouter Used Against Critical Infrastructure
Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026

FBI seizes QScan and QTRouter, China-linked platforms used to hide intrusions and target U.S. critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have seized two platforms, QScan a ...

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U.S. CISA adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ...

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88 ID Verification Breaches Show the Cost of Collecting Identity Data
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Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2026
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 591 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Zero-Click Grok Chat History Theft: Adversa AI Demonstrates Cryptographic Context Injection

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Malware Hijacks Android Car Head Units

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