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Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black
Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017

The hacker 'The Dark Overlord' claims to have stolen and leaked online episodes from the forthcoming season of the TV show Orange Is The New Black. A hacker who goes online with the moniker "The Dark ...

Poorly designed apps leave millions of phones at risk of open port attack
Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017

Security experts demonstrated that insecure mobile applications leave millions of smartphones at risk of open port attack. A group of security researchers from the University of Michigan ( Yunhan Jac ...

Expert discovered online data belonging to the trading firm AMP
Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2017

Security expert Chris Vickery reported a data breach at online trading firm AMP that exposed customer credit reports, and Social Security numbers. The popular security expert Chris Vickery has discov ...

FIN7 group has enhanced its phishing techniques
Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2017

According to the experts from security firm FireEye, the financially-motivated FIN7 group is changing hacking techniques. The group that has been active since late 2015, and was recently spotted to h ...

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Malware
BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar

Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new malware family that uses MQTT, a lightweight ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
Hacking
Google Patches Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Google has patched a high-severity zero-day in the Pixel cellular modem after finding evidence that the vulnerability was exploited in limited, targeted attacks. Google has released its September ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
Data Breach
Revolut Data Leak May Trace Back to Compromised Italian Government Accounts

A suspected compromise of an Italian government PEC account may have allowed threat actors to impersonate law enforcement and obtain sensitive data from hundreds of Revolut customers. The Revolut ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
Data Breach
Texas Utility CenterPoint Energy Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Claims 7.49M Records Stolen

CenterPoint Energy confirmed a customer data breach after a hacker claimed to leak 7.49M records, including personal and billing information. CenterPoint Energy admitted on Monday that an intruder ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Hacking
Cisco Warns of Ongoing Exploitation of Critical Email Gateway Zero-Day

Cisco warns of a critical zero-day in Secure Email Gateway, exploited in the wild to gain root access through malicious emails. Cisco disclosed a critical zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Security
Shared Hosting at Risk: LiteSpeed Enterprise Bug Can Grant Root from a Single Tenant

Critical LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw lets one shared hosting account gain root, bypassing CageFS; patch now to 6.3.7 via forced update. cPanel warned that a critical flaw in LiteSpeed Enterprise can ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
APT
One Exploit Chain, Two Espionage Campaigns: Chrome and Windows Under Fire

Two China-linked groups ran identical Chrome/Windows zero-day exploits against NGOs, before Chrome's patch shipped, deploying different backdoors each. Two China-linked threat actors used the same ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Security
Telegram Desktop Flaw Could Turn Old Chat Exports Into Data Theft Traps

A Telegram Desktop flaw let bots inject JavaScript into exported chats, enabling data theft and page manipulation. Old HTML exports remain unsafe. A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop could have tu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Security
Non-Zero-Day VPN Flaw Left Japan 's Government Shared Network Platform Exposed: 246,000 Records at Risk

Japan 's Digital Agency disclosed a VPN breach exposing 246,000 government employee records across 23 ministries. Detected June 25, publicly disclosed September 11. Japan 's Digital Agency disclos ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
ENISA: Frontier AI Is Changing the Speed of Cyberattacks. Europe Needs to Catch Up

Frontier AI is compressing the attack lifecycle from vulnerability discovery to exploitation, forcing defenders to detect, patch and respond at machine speed. Cybersecurity has always been a race ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Uncategorized
China Calls Amodei’s AI Proposal a New Cold War Playbook

China rejects Amodei’s AI slowdown proposal, calling it fearmongering and a US attempt to contain China’s technology sector. The debate over whether the world should slow down the development ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Security
Dutch NCSC Warns: Critical Check Point VPN Flaws Put Networks at Risk

Two critical Check Point VPN flaws score 9.8 and could enable remote code execution. Patch now and restrict VPN access before exploitation begins. The Dutch NCSC warns that two critical vulnerabil ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible?

Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 114

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter REVSTEALER ramps up Breaking the Seal ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 594 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 September 13, 2026
Hacking
GitLab CVE-2026-85706: One HTTP Request, No Authentication, Full File Read - Exploited Within 24 Hours

CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Cyber Crime
Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence

Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic: AI Misuse Is Entering a New Phase: From Cybercrime to Surveillance, Propaganda and Weapons

AI is becoming an operational force for cybercrime, surveillance, propaganda, fraud and weapons development, lowering the cost and scale of attacks. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2026