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Target Hackers Hit Third Parking Service
Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2015

Criminal crew behind Target and Home Depot data breaches is now targeting online parking reservation services, Book2park is the third victim since December. The hacking crew hackers behind the data b ...

Cybercrime - UNICRI study analyzed risks for the economy and enterprises
Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2015

UNICRI published a study on the impact of the cybercrime on the economy in the Europen region with a specific focus on the effect suffered by enterprises. The UNICRI has recently published a study ti ...

A third Flash Zero-Day is being exploited in the wild
Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2015

A third critical zero-day vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows, Linux and Mac. It is the third time in a few weeks that the security of Adobe users is ...

Hackers stole GigaBytes of Syrian opposition's data, including battle plans
Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2015

A report issued by FireEye revealed that hackers have stolen GigaBytes of data from Syrian opposition's computers, including battlefield plans. A recent report issued by FireEye revealed that hacke ...

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Hacking
Chaotic Eclipse discloses MiniPlasma zero-day, suggesting a missing or undone 2020 Windows security fix

MiniPlasma: a Windows SYSTEM privilege escalation believed patched in 2020 (CVE-2020-17103) is still fully working on every patched Windows 11. Once again, security researcher Chaotic Eclipse has ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2026
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Experts warn of active exploitation of critical NGINX flaw CVE-2026-42945

A critical NGINX flaw (CVE-2026-42945) is actively exploited, allowing crashes or possible code execution via malicious HTTP requests. A critical vulnerability in NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, tracke ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2026
Security
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 97

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter JDownloader site hacked to replace insta ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 577 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 May 17, 2026
Cyber Crime
Attackers exploit Funnel Builder bug to inject e-skimmers into e-stores

Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in the WordPress Funnel Builder plugin to inject skimming code into WooCommerce checkout pages. A critical vulnerability in the WordPress Funnel Builder pl ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2026
Hacking
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day Three: DEVCORE Crowned Master of Pwn, $1.298 Million Total

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 ended with 47 zero-days and $1.29M in payouts, as DEVCORE dominated the competition across all categories. Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 ended after three intense days, with participants ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2026
Hacking
OpenAI hit by supply chain attack linked to malicious TanStack packages

OpenAI said the TanStack supply chain attack compromised two employee devices and exposed credentials from code repositories. OpenAI confirmed that the recent TanStack supply chain attack compromi ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2026
Security
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day Two: $385,750 more, Microsoft Exchange falls, and the running total crosses $900K

Day two of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 saw $385,750 earned for 15 zero-days, bringing the total to $908,750 and 39 vulnerabilities over two days. During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security res ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-42897: Microsoft confirms active exploitation of Exchange Server zero-day

Microsoft warned that attackers are exploiting a new Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42897, in the wild. Microsoft warned that threat actors are actively exploiting a n ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2026
APT
Ghostwriter group resumes attacks on Ukrainian Government targets

ESET uncovered new Ghostwriter (aka FrostyNeighbor) activity targeting Ukrainian government organizations in a campaign active since March 2026. ESET researchers published a new report documenting ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2026
Hacking
Researchers uncover YellowKey and GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days

Researchers disclosed two new Windows zero-days named YellowKey and GreenPlasma affecting BitLocker and the CTFMON framework. A security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse, also called Nightmare- ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2026
Hacking
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day One: $523,000 paid out, AI products fall

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day one saw 22 entries and 24 zero-days across major software, with researchers earning $523,000 in total rewards. Day one of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 featured 22 entries targeting ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN  to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
Security
Linux Kernel bug Fragnesia allows local root access attacks

Fragnesia, a new Linux kernel flaw tracked as CVE-2026-46300, could let local attackers gain root access through page cache corruption. Researchers disclosed a new Linux kernel privilege escalatio ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
Security
Broadcom releases VMware Fusion security update for root access bug

Broadcom patched a high-severity VMware Fusion flaw, CVE-2026-41702, that could let local attackers gain root privileges. Broadcom released a security update for VMware Fusion to address a high-se ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
Hacking
NGINX Rift: an 18-year-old flaw in the world's most deployed web server just came to light

Researchers found a critical 18-year-old buffer overflow flaw in NGINX, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 and named NGINX Rift. If you run NGINX, and statistically speaking, there is a very good chance yo ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
APT
FamousSparrow targets Azerbaijani energy sector in multi-wave espionage campaign

Chinese-linked FamousSparrow repeatedly targeted an Azerbaijani oil and gas company, reusing the same entry point in three intrusions from Dec 2025 to Feb 2026. Chinese-linked threat actor FamousS ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
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Nitrogen Ransomware claims massive data theft from Foxconn

Foxconn confirmed a cyberattack on some North American factories. The Nitrogen ransomware group claims it stole 8TB of data from the firm. Foxconn confirmed that several of its North American fact ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2026
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2026 fix 138 bugs, some of them are alarming

Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 138 flaws, including 30 critical bugs, across Windows, Office, Azure, Edge, SQL Server, and more. Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday patched 138 vulnerab ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2026