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President Trump fired the head of U.S. Cyber Command and NSA
Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2025

President Trump fired Gen. Timothy Haugh as head of U.S. Cyber Command and NSA President Donald Trump this week fired Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, who served as the head of U.S. Cyber Command and ...

Critical flaw in Apache Parquet's Java Library allows remote code execution
Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2025

Experts warn of a critical vulnerability impacting Apache Parquet's Java Library that could allow remote code execution. Apache Parquet's Java Library is a software library for reading and writing ...

CERT-UA reports attacks in March 2025 targeting Ukrainian agencies with WRECKSTEEL Malware
Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2025

CERT-UA reported three cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s state agencies and critical infrastructure to steal sensitive data. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported thr ...

39M secrets exposed: GitHub rolls out new security tools
Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2025

39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub in 2024 GitHub found 39M secrets leaked in 2024 and launched new tools to help developers and organizations secure sensitive data in code. Microsoft-owned co ...

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Cyber Crime
FBI: bank impersonators fuel $262M surge in account takeover fraud

Cybercriminals posing as banks drove a major spike in account takeover fraud this year, stealing over $262 million, the FBI warned. The FBI warns of a surge in account takeover fraud, with crimina ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Cyber Crime
Morphisec warns StealC V2 malware spread through weaponized blender files

StealC V2 spread via malicious Blender files on 3D model sites like CGTrader, abusing Blender’s ability to run hidden Python scripts. Cybersecurity firm Morphisec reported that Russian threat a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Malware
CISA: Spyware and RATs used to target WhatsApp and Signal Users

CISA warns that threat actors are actively using commercial spyware and RATs to target users of mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Signal. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Security
Harvard reports vishing breach exposing alumni and donor contact data

Harvard revealed its Alumni Affairs systems suffered a vishing breach, exposing emails, phone numbers, addresses, donation data and biographical info. Harvard revealed that threat actors breached ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Data Breach
Delta Dental of Virginia data breach impacts 145,918 customers

Delta Dental of Virginia suffered a data breach that exposed personal and health data of about 146,000 customers after the hack of an email account. A security breach at the dental care provider D ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
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