Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
The Nigelthorn malware has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries by abusing a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify. A new strain of malware, dubbed Nigelthorn malware because ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, "Digging in the Deep Web" is online Kindle Edi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2018
Security experts have discovered a vulnerability in the Electron software framework that has been used for building a large number of popular desktop applications. Popular desktop applications, inc ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2018
An Ubuntu user has spotted a Bytecoin cryptocurrency miner hidden in the source code of an Ubuntu Snap Pack in the Official Ubuntu Snap Store. An Ubuntu user that goes online with the GitHub moniker ...
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China-linked group APT41 impersonated a U.S. lawmaker in phishing attacks on government, think tanks, and academics tied to US-China trade and policy. Proofpoint observed China-linked cyber espion ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2025
Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupted the RaccoonO365 phishing service, used to steal thousands of user credentials. A joint operation conducted by Microsoft and Cloudflare has taken down the infrast ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) resentenced the former administrator of the popular BreachForums hacking forum BreachForums to three years in prison. The U.S. DoJ resentenced the former Breac ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2025
Apple announced it has backported patches for a recently addressed actively exploited vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-43300. Apple has backported security patches released to address an actively ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2025
Researchers uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that impacted over 40 packages belonging to multiple maintainers. Security researchers at Socket uncovered a malicious u ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2025
Google found threat actors created a fake account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) and shut it down. Google confirmed that threat actors gained access to its Law Enforcement Request Sy ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2025
China-linked APT group Mustang Panda has been spotted using a new USB worm called SnakeDisk along with a new version of known malware China-linked APT group Mustang Panda (aka Hive0154, Camaro D ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2025
An ex-employee caused an insider breach at FinWise Bank, exposing data of 689,000 American First Finance customers. FinWise Bank is a Utah-based community bank, FDIC-insured, that partners with fi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2025
Crooks stole personal data of millions of Gucci, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen customers: parent firm Kering confirmed the breach. Hackers stole private data of millions of Gucci, Balenciaga, ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2025
Fairmont Federal Credit Union alerts 187K people that a 2023 breach exposed personal, financial, and medical data. Fairmont Federal Credit Union (FFCU) is a not-for-profit financial cooperative in ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2025
UK ICO reports students caused over half of school data breaches, showing kids are shaping cybersecurity in unexpected ways. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), students were respons ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2025
Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance disclosed a security breach impacting a computer in its infrastructure. Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) announced that threat actors lik ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2025
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Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 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
September 14, 2025
Vietnam’s National Credit Information Center (CIC) was hit by a ShinyHunters cyberattack, with VNCERT confirming signs of unauthorized access to steal personal data. Authorities are investigatin ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2025
The U.S. FBI issued a flash alert to warn of malicious activities carried out by two cybercriminal groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395. The FBI issued a FLASH alert with IOCs for cybercriminal g ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2025
HybridPetya ransomware bypasses UEFI Secure Boot to infect EFI partitions, echoing the infamous Petya/NotPetya attacks of 2016–2017. ESET researchers discovered a new ransomware called HybridPet ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2025
Cisco addressed multiple high-severity IOS XR vulnerabilities that can allow ISO image verification bypass and trigger DoS conditions. Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in IOS XR software a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2025
Samsung fixed the remote code execution flaw CVE-2025-21043 that was exploited in zero-day attacks against Android devices. Samsung addressed the remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CV ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2025
LNER warns of a data breach via a third-party supplier, exposing customer contact details and other personal information. UK train operator LNER (London North Eastern Railway) reported a data brea ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2025
