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October ransomware attack on Dallas County impacted over 200,000 people
Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit Dallas County in October 2023 has impacted more than 200,000 individuals exposing their personal information. In October 2023 the Play ransomware group hit Dallas Co ...

CrystalRay operations have scaled 10x to over 1,500 victims
Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024

A threat actor known as CrystalRay targeted 1,500 victims since February using tools like SSH-Snake and various open-source utilities. The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) first spotted the thr ...

Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware
Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) warns that multiple ...

AI-Powered Russia's bot farm operates on X, US and its allies warn
Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024

The US and its allies disrupted an AI-powered Russia-linked bot farm on the social media platform X relying on the Meliorator AI software. The U.S. FBI and Cyber National Mission Force, along with ...

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Malware
Attackers deliver ShadowPad via newly patched WSUS RCE bug

Attackers exploited a patched WSUS flaw (CVE-2025-59287) to gain access, use PowerCat for a shell, and deploy the ShadowPad malware. AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) researchers reporte ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Security
AI attack agents are accelerators, not autonomous weapons: the Anthropic attack

Why today’s AI attack agents boost human attackers but still fall far from becoming real autonomous weapons. Anthropic recently published a report that sparked a lively debate about what AI agen ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Hacking
Scattered Spider alleged members deny TfL charges

Two UK teens linked to Scattered Spider pleaded not guilty to charges over last year’s TfL cyberattack at a Southwark Crown Court hearing. Two British teens accused of Computer Misuse Act offens ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Data Breach
Iberia discloses security incident tied to supplier breach

Iberia warns customers of a supplier-related data breach as a threat actor claims to hold 77GB of stolen airline data. Iberia is warning customers about a data breach after a third-party supplier ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 72

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Contagious Interview Actors Now Utilize ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 551 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 November 23, 2025
Security
SonicWall flags SSLVPN flaw allowing firewall crashes

SonicWall warns of a high-severity buffer overflow flaw in SonicOS SSLVPN (CVE-2025-40601) that lets attackers crash Gen7 and Gen8 firewalls. A new high-severity SonicOS SSLVPN flaw, tracked as CV ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
APT
BadAudio malware: how APT24 scaled its cyberespionage through supply chain attacks

APT24 used supply chain attacks and varied techniques to deploy the BadAudio malware in a long-running cyberespionage campaign. China-linked group APT24 used supply-chain attacks and multiple tech ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds an Oracle Fusion Middleware flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds an Oracle Fusion Middleware flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2025
Security
CrowdStrike denies breach after insider sent internal screenshots to hackers

CrowdStrike says an insider shared internal screenshots with hackers but confirms no system breach and no customer data exposure. BleepingComputer first reported that CrowdStrike said an insider s ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Security
SolarWinds addressed three critical flaws in Serv-U

SolarWinds patched three critical vulnerabilities in its Serv-U file transfer solution that could allow remote code execution. SolarWinds addressed three critical vulnerabilities in its Serv-U fil ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Data Breach
Massive data leak hits Italian railway operator Ferrovie dello Stato via Almaviva hack

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) data leaked after a breach at IT provider Almaviva. A hacker claims the theft of 2.3 TB of sensitive data. Data belonging to Italy's national railway operator F ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Hacking
Salesforce alerts users to potential data exposure via Gainsight OAuth apps

Salesforce warns that unusual activity in Gainsight-linked OAuth apps may have enabled unauthorized access to some customers’ Salesforce data. Salesforce warned of unusual activity involving Gai ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Mobile
Researchers devised a new enumeration technique that exposed 3.5B WhatsApp profiles

Researchers disclosed a WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B accounts. Meta has patched it to prevent this mass enumeration. A team of researchers at the University of Vienna found a WhatsApp flaw that ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Breaking News
Sturnus: New Android banking trojan targets WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

The Android trojan Sturnus targets communications from secure messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Sturnus is a new Android banking trojan with full device-takeover abilities. It byp ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Cyber Crime
Coordinated sanctions hit Russian bulletproof hosting providers enabling top ransomware Ops

US, Australia and UK sanctioned 2 Russian bulletproof hosting providers accused of aiding groups like LockBit, BlackSuit and Play. US, Australia and UK sanctioned two Russian bulletproof hosting p ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
APT
Cyber-enabled kinetic targeting: Iran-linked actor uses cyber operations to support physical attacks

Iran-linked actors mapped ship AIS data ahead of a missile strike attempt, highlighting the rise of cyber operations enabling real-world attacks. Iran-linked threat actors mapped ship Automatic Id ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds a Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Security
7-Zip RCE flaw (CVE-2025-11001) actively exploited in attacks in the wild

A remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11001, in the 7-Zip software is under active exploitation. A new 7-Zip flaw tracked as CVE-2025-11001 (CVSS score of 7.0) is now being a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Cyber Crime
Operation WrtHug hijacks 50,000+ ASUS routers to build a global botnet

Operation WrtHug hijacks tens of thousands of outdated ASUS routers worldwide, mainly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, forming a large botnet. A new campaign called Operation WrtHug has compromise ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025