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Avast internal network breached for the second time by sophisticated hackers
Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2019

The popular security firm Avast disclosed today a security breach that impacted its internal network accessed via a compromised VPN profile. The security firm Avast disclosed today a security brea ...

UK/US investigation revealed that Russian Turla APT masqueraded as Iranian hackers
Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2019

A joint UK and US investigation has revealed that the Russian cyber espionage group Turla carried out cyber attacks masqueraded as Iranian hackers. According to the Financial Times, a joint UK and ...

Hackers stole card details from BriansClub carding site
Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2019

BriansClub, one of the biggest a dark web “carding store,” which specializes in the sale of stolen payment card data, has been hacked.  Hackers have breached BriansClub (BriansClub[.]at), on ...

TA505 cybercrime group use SDBbot RAT in recent campaigns
Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2019

TA505 cybercrime group that operated the Dridex Trojan and Locky ransomware, has been using a new RAT dubbed SDBbot in recent attacks. Security experts at Proofpoint observed the notorious TA505 c ...

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Data Breach
Tata Electronics Confirms Data Breach After 630GB Leak Claim Targets Apple and Tesla

Tata Electronics confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to steal 630GB of data, including alleged Apple supplier and Tesla documents. Tata Electronics, a major supplier to Apple and Tesla, ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Security
Curl Fixes a 25-Year-Old Bug in Its Largest CVE Release Yet

Curl fixed 18 vulnerabilities, including a 25-year-old bug, with issues spanning auth bypass, memory safety, and host validation in libcurl. Curl maintainers addressed eighteen vulnerabilities wit ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Inside Mistic, the New Stealth Backdoor in Ransomware Intrusions

Mistic is a stealthy backdoor used by KongTuke-linked actors to keep long-term access in ransomware-targeted networks. Mistic is the kind of backdoor that tells you the operator wants time, not no ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Hacking
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited Months Before Disclosure

Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat act ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Nathan Austad Pleads Guilty in DraftKings Hacking Scheme, Gets 18 Months

Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 D ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Europol Disrupts StealC and Amadey Malware Infrastructure in Operation Endgame

Operation Endgame disrupted malware services like StealC and Amadey that enable ransomware, fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure. Between June 15 and 19, 2026, Europol coordinated a two-w ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Why Frontier AI makes prioritization the most important part of your CTEM program

Frontier AI could drive a 10x surge in vulnerabilities. CTEM helps organizations continuously identify, prioritize, and reduce real cyber risk. Your vulnerability management program was not design ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Uncategorized
Cisco Unified CM Flaw CVE-2026-20230 Actively Exploited in the Wild

Attackers exploit Cisco Unified CM flaw (CVE-2026-20230) allowing unauth HTTP requests to trigger SSRF, write files, and gain root access Cisco Unified Communications Manager has a serious vulnera ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Cyber Crime
FortiBleed: The Broker Who Turned 73,000 Firewalls Into a Product Catalog

FortiBleed exposed valid credentials for 73,000+ Fortinet firewalls, revealing a large-scale access-brokering operation targeting organizations worldwide. In mid-June 2026, researcher Volodymyr "B ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Security
One Railway Radio Outage Stopped Trains Across Germany and Nobody Knew Why

A nationwide GSM-R outage stopped trains across Germany, exposing how one aging communications system can still bring an entire rail network to a halt At 10:30 PM on Tuesday June 23, Deutsche Bahn ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Security
Samsung KNOX Kernel UAF Exposes Millions of Galaxy Devices

Samsung’s KNOX flaw (CVE-2026-20971) is a kernel UAF in PROCA/FIVE that can enable corruption via a race; Samsung patched it in Jan 2026. Experts found a nasty kernel flaw in Samsung’s KNOX st ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Hacking
DifyTap: Four Bugs Put over 1 million AI Apps at Risk

Four flaws in Dify exposed cross-tenant data, documents and AI conversations. Two critical bugs enabled unauthenticated access and data theft. Zafran Labs researchers disclosed four vulnerabilitie ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Cyber Crime
Xsolis Data Breach Impacts 1.4 Million People

Xsolis disclosed a breach affecting 1.4M people after a phishing attack exposed personal and health data from its hospital clients’ systems. Healthcare tech company Xsolis, Inc. has disclosed a ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Hacking
ShapedPlugin Supply Chain Attack Backdoors Pro Plugin Updates

Attackers backdoored ShapedPlugin Pro updates, deploying malware that steals credentials, 2FA secrets, and grants full site access. If you installed a ShapedPlugin Pro plugin between April and Jun ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Hacking
Squidbleed: 29-Year-Old Squid Bug Leaks User Credentials

Squidbleed is a 29-year-old Squid Proxy flaw that can leak credentials, tokens, and other users' HTTP data through a memory overread. Researchers at Calif.io have disclosed CVE-2026-47729, a memor ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2026
Malware
WhatsApp Malware Campaign Hijacks Trust, Installs Legitimate Admin Tools

WhatsApp accounts were hijacked to spread fake debt notices that install remote access software, giving attackers control of victims' PCs. Kaspersky published a technical analysis this week of an ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
Data Breach
Texas Parks & Wildlife (TPWD) Data Breach impacts 3 Million People

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) breach exposed data of 3M people via a third-party license vendor, including sensitive personal information. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPW ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic's Mythos AI broke into almost all NSA classified systems in hours

Senate testimony claims Anthropic's Mythos AI breached NSA and Cyber Command systems in hours, prompting a U.S.-ordered shutdown. On June 12, the Trump administration directed Anthropic to restric ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026
Hacking
FortiBleed: The Most Detailed Breakdown Yet of an Active Russian Credential-Harvesting Operation

FortiBleed targeted 430,000+ FortiGate devices, harvesting 110M credentials and enabling breaches through large-scale credential theft. A new threat intelligence report from SOCRadar's Threat Rese ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2026