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Ukraine IT Army hit EGAIS portal impacting Russia's alcohol distribution
Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2022

Ukraine IT Army launched massive DDoS attacks on the EGAIS portal that has a crucial role in Russia's alcohol distribution. The collective of hacktivists Ukraine IT Army has launched a series of m ...

Google addresses actively exploited Android flaw in the kernel
Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022

Google released the May security bulletin for Android, 2022-05-05 security patch level, which fixed an actively exploited Linux kernel flaw. Google has released the second part of the May Security ...

Cisco addresses three bugs in Enterprise NFVIS Software
Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022

Cisco addresses three flaws impacting its Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) that could allow the compromise of the hosts. Cisco addressed three vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-20 ...

A couple of 10-Year-Old flaws affect Avast and AVG antivirus
Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022

Researcher discovered a couple of high-severity security flaws that affect a driver used by Avast and AVG antivirus solutions. SentinelOne researcher Kasif Dekel discovered two high-severity secur ...

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Cyber Crime
ShinyHunters arrest number three: a Canadian ransomware negotiator

A Canadian ransomware negotiator faces extortion charges in the FBI's ShinyHunters crackdown. Here's what is known, and what isn't. ShinyHunters is the focus of a global FBI investigation, and the ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Security
Canonical Hit by Second DDoS Attack in 2026, Public Websites Disrupted

Canonical suffered its second DDoS attack this year, disrupting public websites for over four hours while Launchpad and the Snap Store remained online. Ubuntu's parent company Canonical spent part ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Hacking
SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 SSRF Flaw as Attacks Begin

Attackers are exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score of 10.0), just days after its public disclosure. Attackers have begun exploiting a critical flaw i ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Cyber Crime
CyberXero Used 51 AI Agents to Steal 628,000 Ukrainian Records

CyberXero used 51 AI agents to support cyberattacks, stealing 628,000 Ukrainian records, including sensitive data from energy infrastructure. CyberXero is an operation that combines traditional ha ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Cyber Crime
GTA 6 Leaker Demands $30M Meme Coin Market Cap to Release Full Game

CyberLeek threatens to leak a playable GTA 6 build if its Solana meme coin hits a $30 million market cap, but the build remains unverified. CyberLeek, the anonymous figure behind this summer’s w ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 3

Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 118

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public S ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Malware
Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can't uninstall, seen in 150 countries

Bitdefender finds Midnight Mimosa, preinstalled Android malware on cheap MediaTek phones that fakes ad clicks, drops apps and builds a proxy botnet. Bitdefender researchers discovered a campaign c ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 599 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 October 11, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecuri ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures

Anthropic’s models kept working around the rules on the live internet. The company published the cases. Anthropic released a report on unintended actions its Claude models took during evaluation ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files

Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No m ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
US Sentences Empire Market Co-Creator Over $430 Million Criminal Marketplace

Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Uncategorized
Germany Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Leader After Japan Detention

Japan helped extradite a Russian suspect linked to Qilin ransomware to Germany, but the gang continued attacking victims after his arrest. Germany has arrested a Russian national believed to be a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Claude Helps Secure Open Source as Anthropic Offers Free Vulnerability Scanning

Anthropic launches free OSS Scanner, using AI to find open-source vulnerabilities and help maintainers fix bugs before attackers exploit them. Anthropic is launching OSS Scanner, a vulnerability s ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Security
US Disrupts China-Linked Integrity Tech 's Cyber Espionage Tools

DOJ and FBI seized China-linked hacking tools Microscan and FishHub, linked to Integrity Tech and attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The Justice Department and FBI took down two hacking ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Hacking
AI-Driven tool ARTEX used in attacks against South Korean Banks

CrowdStrike analyzes open directories left by an attacker who used the ARTEX AI pentest tool and LLMs to breach South Korean financial firms. CrowdStrike published a research on a campaign against ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Cyber warfare
Italy's Foreign Ministry Under Cyberattack as Embassy Sites Come Under Review

Italy's Foreign Ministry is defending its website against a cyberattack, checking embassy sites and pushing for EU action to identify attackers. On the morning of October 8, Italy's Ministry of Fo ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
Hunt.io Finds New Infrastructure Of BraZetsu Access Broker Months Before Disclosure

Hunt.io traced BraZetsu 's infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers published a detailed write ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands

MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of Florida-based MonsterC ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026