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Cloudflare blocked record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-o ...

Apple fixes the first zero-day in iPhones and Macs this year
Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2023

Apple has released emergency security updates to fix a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that impacts iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Apple has released emergency security updates to address ...

Enigma info-stealing malware targets the cryptocurrency industry
Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2023

Alleged Russian threat actors have been targeting cryptocurrency users in Eastern Europe with Enigma info-stealing malware. A malware campaign conducted by alleged Russian threat actors has been t ...

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet targets NATO websites with DDoS attacks
Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2023

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. Pro-Russia hacker group K ...

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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
Intelligence
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu

The U.S. offers $10M for Zhang Yu, accused of helping run HAFNIUM attacks that compromised thousands of organizations worldwide. The U.S. State Department is offering a $10 million reward for info ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Security
Atlassian Vulnerability Comes Under Attack Hours After Details Go Public

Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-21589, a critical Atlassian flaw that can expose sensitive files across multiple Data Center products. Threat actors have started exploiting CVE-2026-21589 (C ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Security
SonicWall Fixes Max Severity Pre-Auth Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall patched a CVSS 10 pre-auth SSRF flaw in SMA1000 appliances that could let unauthenticated attackers reach internal functions. SonicWall released hotfixes for four vulnerabilities in its ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Cyber Crime
FortiBleed hit 86,000 firewalls by exploiting something nobody can patch away

FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed, a credential-harvesting campaign against Fortinet firewalls, has compromised 86,644 devices and is locking out admins. The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service i ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Hacking
CERT-UA: Fake Cloudflare Checks Deliver LunexStealer Malware

Over 100 hacked websites used fake Cloudflare checks to trick visitors into installing LunexStealer through ClickFix commands. The lure is the now-familiar ClickFix technique, dressed up as Cloudf ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Creates Three Tiers for Claude Cyber Access

Anthropic created three access tiers for Claude's offensive security use, matching cyber capabilities and safeguards to the user's level of trust. Anthropic is trying to solve the difficult balanc ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Wikimedia Finds Unauthorized OpenAI Agent Activity on Wikipedia

Wikimedia found unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, including unapproved edits, proxy attempts and millions of automated API requests. Wikimedia ran its own investigation after ot ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely

Microsoft released emergency updates for Exchange Server to fix CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity flaw that can let attackers gain higher privileges. Microsoft has released out-of-band security upda ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Data Breach
FBI Drops Accenture Contractor After Sensitive Data Breach

Accenture lost an FBI contract after a missed security patch exposed sensitive employee data, raising serious concerns over operational security. The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its acc ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Security
Dell Urges Customers to Patch Critical DSU Flaw That Can Give Attackers Root Access

Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged customers to patch a critical flaw, tracked a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
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ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public STUN Infrastructure

Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Data Breach
Denmark ’s Population Registry Breached, 8.8 Million Affected

Hackers accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people in Denmark through a third-party company with legal registry access. A hacker broke into the database that holds basically e ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026