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Pro-ISIS group defaced US Government websites in 3 states
Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2017

Several government websites were hacked by a pro-ISIS group that is calling itself Team System DZ, including those of the Ohio Governor John Kasich. Several government websites in Ohio and Maryland,� ...

Google Hacker found a new way to bypass Microsoft Windows Defender
Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2017

The Google Project Zero expert Tavis Ormandy has found a flaw in Windows Defender that allow attackers to bypass the Microsoft anti-virus tool. The popular Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy ...

Company fired an employee, he shut down water utility providers' networks in 5 cities
Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2017

A former employee was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for damaging the IT networks of several water utility providers across the US East Coast. Adam Flanagan (42) of Bala Cynwyd, PA was ...

Reading the 2016 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report
Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2017

According to 2106 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report, 298,728 complaints were received in 2016 totaling more than $1.3 billion in financial loss. According to the new edition of the Intern ...

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Hacking
SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 SSRF Flaw as Attacks Begin

Attackers are exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score of 10.0), just days after its public disclosure. Attackers have begun exploiting a critical flaw i ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Cyber Crime
CyberXero Used 51 AI Agents to Steal 628,000 Ukrainian Records

CyberXero used 51 AI agents to support cyberattacks, stealing 628,000 Ukrainian records, including sensitive data from energy infrastructure. CyberXero is an operation that combines traditional ha ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Cyber Crime
GTA 6 Leaker Demands $30M Meme Coin Market Cap to Release Full Game

CyberLeek threatens to leak a playable GTA 6 build if its Solana meme coin hits a $30 million market cap, but the build remains unverified. CyberLeek, the anonymous figure behind this summer’s w ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 3

Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 118

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public S ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Malware
Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can't uninstall, seen in 150 countries

Bitdefender finds Midnight Mimosa, preinstalled Android malware on cheap MediaTek phones that fakes ad clicks, drops apps and builds a proxy botnet. Bitdefender researchers discovered a campaign c ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 599 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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 11, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecuri ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures

Anthropic’s models kept working around the rules on the live internet. The company published the cases. Anthropic released a report on unintended actions its Claude models took during evaluation ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files

Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No m ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
US Sentences Empire Market Co-Creator Over $430 Million Criminal Marketplace

Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Uncategorized
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