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StealC malware control panel flaw leaks details on active attacker
Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2026

Researchers uncovered an XSS flaw in StealC malware’s control panel, exposing key details about a threat actor using the info stealer. StealC is an infostealer that has been active since at leas ...

Hacker pleads guilty to hacking Supreme Court, AmeriCorps, and VA Systems
Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2026

An actor who goes online with the alias @ihackthegovernment posted stolen personal data from his victims, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Nicholas Moore, 24, from Tennessee, pleaded guilty to re ...

Hacktivists hijacked Iran ’s state TV to air anti-regime messages and an appeal to protest from Reza Pahlavi
Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2026

Activists hacked Iran ’s Badr satellite, briefly broadcasting Reza Pahlavi’s anti-regime protest messages on state TV channels. Anti-regime activists briefly took control of Iran ’s Badr sat ...

GootLoader uses malformed ZIP files to bypass security controls
Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2026

GootLoader malware uses malformed ZIP files made of hundreds of concatenated archives to evade detection. GootLoader is used by ransomware actors for initial access, then handed off to others. Bui ...

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Malware
14,971 WordPress Sites Cleaned in Global SocGholish Takedown

Operation EndGame disrupted SocGholish, taking down 106 servers and cleaning 14,971 WordPress sites used to spread fake-update malware. On June 18, 2026, law enforcement agencies from the Netherla ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Splunk Enterprise flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and urges agencies to fix it by Sunday

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

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2026
Intelligence
Peter Thiel 's Secret Society Leak Creates a Perfect Target List for Espionage, Influence Operations, and Blackmail

A simple website flaw exposed members, political profiles, login tokens, and dating data from Peter Thiel 's secretive Dialog network. Dialog, a private invitation-only organization cofounded in 2 ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2026
Security
24 Billion Stolen Credentials Exposed in Massive Data Leak

24 Billion Records Left Open Online: Passwords, Emails, and Everything Else Exposed database with 24 Billion records revealed stolen credentials from infostealers, Telegram channels, and breach co ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2026
Uncategorized
Cisco fixed a critical ISE vulnerability that lets attackers to gain root access

Cisco addressed CVE-2026-20181, a critical ISE vulnerability that lets authenticated admins execute commands and gain root access. Cisco addressed a critical command execution vulnerability, track ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Security
F5 Patches Critical NGINX Vulnerabilities Enabling Unauthenticated Code Execution

F5 released emergency updates for critical NGINX flaws (CVE-2026-42530, CVE-2026-42055) that could enable unauthenticated code execution. F5 has issued out-of-band patches for multiple NGINX vulne ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Security
Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Zero-Day in Defender, Patch Under Development

Microsoft confirmed the RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656), a privilege escalation flaw, and is developing a security patch. Microsoft has acknowledged the RoguePlanet zero-day affecti ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Hacking
FortiBleed Exposes Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls

FortiBleed: Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls Are Out in the Wild. Half the Internet-Facing Fortinets on the Planet. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found a server sitting open on th ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026
Security
DragonForce Hid Inside Microsoft Teams and Nobody Noticed for Two Months

DragonForce hid for months by routing malware traffic through Microsoft Teams infrastructure, masking C2 activity and evading network detection. DragonForce ransomware operators hit a major U.S. s ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrast ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
Cyber Crime
New Rokarolla Android Trojan Targets 217 Banking and Crypto Apps

Rokarolla Android malware targets 217 banking and crypto apps, steals credentials, blocks bank calls, intercepts SMS, and disables Play Protect. Zimperium's zLabs researchers have published a deta ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
Data Breach
EdTech Faces a Cybersecurity Crisis: Data Breaches Surge

EdTech firms face rising cyberattacks as ShinyHunters and FulcrumSec target schools, exposing sensitive data and disrupting services. Resecurity (USA) warns the education technology (EdTech) secto ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
Security
FulcrumSec Targets Novo Nordisk, Leaks Clinical and Research Data

FulcrumSec leaked data stolen from Novo Nordisk, claiming to have exfiltrated 1.3TB, including clinical records and AI research assets. On June 15, 2026, a data-theft extortion group calling itsel ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
APT
China-Linked FishMonger Ports SprySOCKS to Windows With Kernel-Level Stealth and UEFI Bootkit Hints

China-linked FishMonger used two SprySOCKS Windows variants that leveraged kernel drivers and the Print Spooler to target governments in four countries. ESET researchers have found two previously ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2026
Data Breach
iRhythm Hit by Cyberattack, Patient Data Stolen and Ransom Demanded

iRhythm disclosed a cyberattack via third-party apps where patient and proprietary data was stolen, followed by a ransom demand. iRhythm Technologies is a U.S.-based digital healthcare company spe ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Fortinet Warned as Three Critical FortiSandbox Bugs Come Under Attack

Three FortiSandbox flaws, including one patched last week, are being actively exploited, highlighting the shrinking window for defenders. Cybersecurity firm Defused Cyber confirmed it's seen activ ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-20262: CISCO Catalyst SD-WAN Flaw Under Active Targeted Exploitation

Cisco warned that CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability allowing arbitrary file writes, is being actively exploited. Cisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, an arb ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infras ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2026
APT
China-linked actor spent two years inside medical research networks

China's UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google's Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2026
Data Breach
Australian Sugar Producer Mackay Sugar Reports Cyber Incident

Mackay Sugar, Australia's second-largest sugar producer, disclosed a cyberattack on June 10, potentially affecting key processing operations. Mackay Sugar is one of Australia's largest sugar produ ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2026