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NSA broke trillions of encrypted connections due to a flaw
Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2015

A flaw affecting the way encryption software implements the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm allowed the NSA to break trillions of encrypted connections. Edward Snowden has revealed to the w ...

U.S. charges a suspect with cyber terrorism for the first time
Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2015

Cyber Terrorism, The Justice Department has charged a hacker in Malaysia with stealing the personal data of US service members and passing it to the IS group. For the first time ever the US Justice D ...

DroneDefender, electromagnetic gun that shoot down drones
Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2015

DroneDefender is a weapon specifically designed to target drones at a range of just 400 meters with radio waves forcing them to safe mode. While the number of drones in the sky is increasing exponent ...

88% of Android devices vulnerable due to slow patch management
Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2015

Researchers probed 20,400 Android devices and found 87.7 per cent contained at least one exploitable vulnerability due to a slow patch management. New Android vulnerabilities are discovered every day ...

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Security
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Cyber Crime
Global law enforcement operation takes First VPN offline

Police seized First VPN in a global crackdown, exposed its cybercrime users, and shut down infrastructure tied to ransomware and data theft. A major international law enforcement operation has tak ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Apple Blocks Over 2 Million Apps in 2025 Fraud Crackdown

Apple 2025 fraud report shows major App Store protections: over 2M apps rejected, 1B fake accounts blocked, and billions in fraud prevented. Apple 's annual fraud prevention report for 2025 paints ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Hacking
Attackers are bypassing MFA on SonicWall VPNs because something was wrong with previous fix

Attackers bypassed MFA on patched SonicWall Gen6 VPNs because admins missed extra manual steps required to fully fix the flaw. There is a particular kind of security failure that is harder to catc ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Cisco fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2026-20223 in Secure Workload

Cisco fixed a critical Secure Workload flaw (CVE-2026-20223) that could let attackers gain Site Admin privileges through crafted API requests. Cisco released patches for a critical vulnerability, ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Discord adds end-to-end encryption to voice and video calls by default

Discord now enables end-to-end encryption by default for all voice and video calls, making conversations inaccessible even to the platform itself. No announcement fanfare, no opt-in required, no s ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
PinTheft: Another Linux Privilege Escalation, Another Working Exploit, This Time Targeting Arch

PinTheft is a Linux LPE flaw in the RDS subsystem with public exploit code. Arch Linux users face the highest risk and should patch immediately. The wave of Linux local privilege escalation vulner ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Hacking
Microsoft issues YellowKey mitigation, no patch yet

Microsoft acknowledged the YellowKey BitLocker bypass flaw and released mitigations, urging admins to disable autofstx.exe and enable TPM+PIN. A week after Chaotic Eclipse publicly dropped the Yel ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
Carding site B1ack’s Stash dumps 4.6 Million stolen cards for free 

Carding forum B1ack's Stash claims to have released millions of stolen CVV2 payment card records for free after suspending sellers. B1ack's Stash, one of the most active stolen card marketplaces o ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
A malicious VS code extension just breached GitHub 's internal repositories

One employee installed a trojanized VS Code extension. Result: ~3,800 GitHub internal repositories exfiltrated. TeamPCP claims credit, wants $50K. There is something almost ironic about GitHub, th ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Uncategorized
DirtyDecrypt: PoC Released for yet another Linux flaw

DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-31635): working PoC out for a Linux kernel LPE flaw. Missing COW guard in rxgk_decrypt_skb lets local attackers reach root. After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia, here ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Hacking
Alleged Huawei zero-day blamed for the 2025 Luxembourg telecom crash

A Huawei zero-day flaw reportedly caused Luxembourg’s 2025 nationwide outage, disrupting landline, 4G/5G, and emergency services On July 23, 2025, a nationwide telecom outage in Luxembourg was r ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Security
Drupal is rolling out an emergency security update on May 20. You cannot miss it

Drupal Is Pushing an Emergency Security Update Tomorrow. If You Run a Drupal Site, This Is Not One to Miss. Something significant is coming out of the Drupal project tomorrow, and the way the anno ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Cyber Crime
Microsoft dismantled malware-signing network Fox Tempest

Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) that allowed attackers to sign malware with fake trusted certificates. Microsoft said it disrupted a cybercrime operation ru ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Intelligence
Poland shifts away from Signal following cyberattacks on officials’ accounts

Poland told officials to stop using the popular instant messaging app Signal after cyberattacks targeted government accounts. Poland has instructed government officials to stop using Signal for se ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Cyber Crime
Massive MENA cybercrime Operation Ramz disrupts infrastructure and arrests 201 suspects

INTERPOL led Operation Ramz in MENA, resulting in 201 arrests and 382 suspects tied to cybercrime networks. INTERPOL coordinated Operation Ramz across the Middle East and North Africa, leading to ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Malware
Shai-Hulud worm copycats emerge after source code leak

Shai-Hulud worm copycats are already attacking NPM developers after its source code leaked, enabling fast supply chain exploitation. The first copycats of the Shai-Hulud worm have already started ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Breaking News
Grafana confirms GitHub token breach cybercrime group claims the attack

Grafana confirmed a GitHub token breach that exposed source code, but said no customer data or systems were affected. Grafana Labs confirmed a security incident after the extortion group Coinbase ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2026
Data Breach
ShinyHunters hack 7-Eleven: franchisee data and Salesforce records exposed

7-Eleven confirmed a breach after ShinyHunters claimed theft of over 600,000 Salesforce records and franchisee data. 7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters hacking group claim ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2026
Data Breach
Public Amazon bucket leaks sensitive guest data from Japanese hotel platform Tabiq

A hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, IDs, and selfies online due to a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. A security lapse in the Reqrea's Tabiq hotel check-in system exposed ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2026