Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2013
APWG published the interesting study APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report on the underground marketplace that revealed the explosion of prolific mobile fraud malware market. The APWG Mobile Financial F ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2013
Bloomberg published a report on QinetiQ data breach, the company has been compromised from 2007 to 2012 by Chinese hackers. The UK-based defense contractor QinetiQ is vulnerable to cyber attacks, th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2013
When the DDoS topic is introduced it's immediate to link it with the most popular tools usable for this type of attacks, but underground offers much more. When the DDoS topic is introduced it's im ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2013
The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) were hacked back in January by hacker probably having Chinese origin. The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers� ...
“Brash” flaw in Chromium’s Blink engine lets attackers crash browsers instantly via a single malicious URL, researcher Jose Pino revealed. Security researcher Jose Pino found a severe vulner ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2025
Former US defense contractor exec Peter Williams pled guilty to stealing trade secrets and selling cyber exploits to a Russian broker, per the US DOJ. Ex-US defense contractor Peter Williams (39) ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2025
Dentsu said its U.S. unit Merkle was hit by a cyberattack exposing staff and client data, forcing some systems offline to mitigate the security breach. Japanese multinational advertising and publi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2025
Canada’s cyber agency warns hacktivists breached critical infrastructure, altering industrial controls and risking public safety. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security revealed that hacktivists ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2025
Russian actors, likely linked to Sandworm, targeted Ukrainian firms using LotL tactics and dual-use tools to steal data and stay hidden, says Symantec and Carbon Black. Russian threat actors, like ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure S ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2025
Threat Fabric researchers spotted Herodotus Android malware mimicking human typing with random delays to evade detection. Threat Fabric found a new Android malware, named Herodotus, which mimics ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2025
A new Mirai-based IoT botnet, dubbed Aisuru, was used to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks exceeding 20Tb/sec and/or 4gpps. In October 2025, the Aisuru Mirai-based IoT botnet launched massi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2025
Hackers hit Sweden’s power grid operator Svenska kraftnät, stealing data via a file transfer tool. The power grid was not affected. Hackers breached Sweden’s state-owned power grid operator S ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2025
QNAP warns of critical ASP.NET flaw (CVE-2025-55315) in NetBak PC Agent, letting attackers hijack credentials or bypass security via HTTP smuggling. QNAP urges users to patch a critical ASP.NET Co ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2025
Only 23% of ransomware victims paid in Q3 2025, the lowest ever, continuing a six-year decline in payment rates, Coveware reports. Cybersecurity firm Coveware reports that only 23% of ransomware v ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2025
X urges users with passkeys or YubiKeys to re-enroll 2FA by Nov 10, 2025, or risk account lockout. Re-enroll, switch 2FA, or disable it. Social media platform X is urging users who use passkeys or ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2025
Kaspersky links the first Chrome zero-day of 2025 to tools used in attacks attributed to Memento Labs, formerly known as the Hacking Team. The actor behind Operation ForumTroll used the same tools ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2025
Attackers can trick OpenAI Atlas browser via prompt injection, treating malicious instructions disguised as URLs in the omnibox as trusted commands. Attackers can exploit the OpenAI Atlas browser ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2025
Qilin ransomware group used Linux binaries on Windows to evade EDRs, steal backups, and disable defenses via BYOVD attacks. Trend Research found that the Qilin ransomware group (aka Agenda) used a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2025
Hackers exploited old RCE flaws in WordPress GutenKit and Hunk Companion plugins. Wordfence firm blocked 8.7M attacks in two days. In September and October 2024, submissions revealed Arbitrary Plu ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2025
Safepay group claims the hack of professional video surveillance provider Xortec and added the company to its data leak site. The Safepay group claimed responsibility for hacking German video surv ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2025
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter TikTok videos continue to push infosteal ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2025
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 26, 2025
A DDoS attack on Russia’s food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor disrupted food shipments by crippling its VetIS and Saturn tracking systems. A DDoS cyberattack on Russia’s food safety agency, Ro ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2025
