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A global operation took down the Simda botnet
Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015

Law enforcement dismantled the Simda botnet in an international joint effort that involved also most important private security firms. Another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide a ...

APT30 behind a long-running cyber espionage campaign
Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015

Researchers at FireEye uncovered a new threat actor dubbed APT30 that run a decade-long cyber espionage campaign backed by the Chinese Government. Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a new lon ...

Hackers took over social media accounts of Iranian state Al Alam TV
Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015

Unknown hackers took over social media accounts of Iranian state Al Alam TV spreading fake news of the death of an Iran-allied rebel leader in Yemen. The Iranian Arabic-language state TV network Al A ...

Security Affairs newsletter Round 4 - Best of the week from best sources
Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2015

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Firefox 37 arrives with Opportunistic E ...

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Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
More Capable AI, Not Enough Guardrails

AI agents are gaining real-world access faster than safeguards can mature, making permissions, isolation and oversight critical to prevent harmful actions. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent thre ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Hacking
A New Claude 's Sandbox Failure Shows How AI Can Rationalize Real-World Harm

Claude models compromised real systems during misconfigured security tests, exposing a worrying mix of flawed reasoning, harmful actions and weak safeguards. Anthropic just published one of the mo ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows, N-able N-central, and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows, N-able N-central, and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and In ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
APT
Four Nation-State Actors Used the Same Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Kit Within 12 Days

Four espionage groups used the BlueMoon Chrome+Windows exploit kit within 12 days. Researchers suspect AI development. Proofpoint published a detailed analysis of a Chrome-and-Windows exploit kit ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Security
US Agencies Warn Chinese AI Firms Are Extracting Advanced AI Models

US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from US AI models to accelerate development and copy advanced capabilities. NSA, CISA, and the FBI jointly published an adv ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Security
Google fixes the seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026

Google patched 230 Chrome flaws, including an actively exploited V8 bug that could let attackers run arbitrary code through a crafted HTML page. Google released a Chrome update fixing 230 security ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Malware
PoisonedRefresh: A Fileless Linux Rootkit That Injects PHP Web Shells Into F5 BIG-IP APM Server Memory

PoisonedRefresh rootkit injects PHP web shells into F5 BIG-IP APM Apache memory, leaving no disk artifacts. SophosLabs published a detailed technical analysis on September 8, 2026, of a Linux impl ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Security
Chaotic Eclipse Released ShieldCrash, A PoC For Microsoft Defender Zero-Day

The researcher Chaotic Eclipse released ShieldCrash, a PoC exploit for a Microsoft Defender Zero-Day vulnerability. Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightm ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Security
Microsoft’s Biggest Patch Tuesday: 974 CVEs, 2 Zero-Days and 20 Wormable Bugs

September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 974 CVEs including 2 exploited zero-days, 20 wormable bugs, and a critical Exchange RCE via Visio email. Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday set ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Cyber Crime
Hackers Drain $320 Million From Liquid Network, Then Return Most of It

Crypto exchange network Liquid Network lost $320 million overnight, then got most of it back after the hackers demanded a bug fix instead of a ransom Bitcoin's Liquid Network, a sidechain built by ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
Hacking
WeChat Worm Can Hijack Accounts Without Victims Answering Calls

Researchers built a WeChat worm that spreads through incoming calls without user action. Tencent has blocked the exploit. Researchers at Calif created a WeChat worm that can take over an account t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
Data Breach
Massive Vietnam-Linked APIS Database Exposes Passport and Flight Data

An exposed Vietnam-linked APIS database contained 220.8 million passenger and crew records, including passport and flight data. Researchers found an exposed Advance Passenger Information System (A ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
APT
North Korea-linked Hackers Hide a Backdoor Inside HAProxy

North Korea-linked hackers hid a backdoor inside HAProxy, masking C2 traffic and stealing data while keeping the load balancer working normally. North Korean-linked hackers found a genuinely cleve ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
IT Help Desk Impersonation Lets Hackers Bypass MFA

Attackers bypass endpoint security by posing as IT staff, stealing Microsoft 365 sessions, draining SaaS data and demanding extortion. Forget installing malware because today’s extortionists jus ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2026
Data Breach
Condé Nast Data of 32.8 Million Users Offered for Sale After WIRED Leak

Condé Nast user data from 32.8 million accounts is reportedly for sale, raising risks of targeted phishing, fraud and scams. A database said to contain 32.8 million Condé Nast user records is be ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Uncategorized
StyleSmuggler: The Magento Zero-Day Behind New Store Attacks

StyleSmuggler Magento zero-day is under active attack, letting unauthenticated attackers execute code and install backdoors on stores that may already be patched. A new zero-day flaw, dubbed Style ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Hacking
Chaotic Eclipse Released GreenSection, A PoC For NVIDIA Memory Corruption Zero-Day

Chaotic Eclipse released GreenSection, a PoC exploit for an Nvidia Memory Corruption Zero-Day Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare- ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Malware
JSCeal Hides Crypto Malware in V8 Bytecode

JSCeal hides crypto-stealing malware in V8 bytecode, but researchers built a tool to decompile it and expose its advanced theft capabilities. JSCeal is a cryptocurrency stealer that Check Point Re ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Why AI Agent Sandboxes Are Failing Security Tests

Autonomous AI agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face via reward hacking, exposing serious architectural control and isolation flaws. The recent case involving OpenAI test agents and Hu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2026