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Russia-linked hacker group APT28 continues to target Montenegro
Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017

Once again, Montenegro was targeted by the Russia-linked hacker group APT28, according to the experts it is just the beginning. On June 5 Montenegro officially joined NATO alliance despite the stro ...

Exfiltrating data from Air-Gapped Networks via Router LEDs
Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017

A team of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique to exfiltrate data from a machine by using a malware that controls router LEDs. A few months ago a group of researchers from Israeli Ben ...

4 Possible Ways to Make Your Browser Hacker-Proof
Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017

Browsers are constantly targeted by hackers. Here are 4 ways you can make your browser hacker-proof. Use them to stay secure on the web. Browsers have long been a hot target of numerous hacking-relat ...

FBI arrests NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking top-secret report
Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017

The FBI agents arrested the NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking the top-secret report, here's how she was identified. Yesterday the online news outlet The Intercept published a top-secr ...

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Cyber Crime
Extortion Group Claims Theft of Nearly One Billion Expedia Traveler Records

Russian extortion group n0n claims to have stolen nearly one billion Expedia traveler records through a compromised third-party provider. A newly formed Russian cyber extortion group called n0n cl ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2026
Cyber Crime
North Korea 's Crypto Theft Operations: DOJ Seizes $1.2 Billion and Disrupts Hacker Infrastructure

The DOJ seized over $1.2 billion from North Korea 's Binance theft, and says the same hackers are targeting open-source developers The U.S. Department of Justice announced two separate but connect ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2026
Cyber Crime
Gootloader Malware Disrupted After Infecting 25,000 Computers

International law enforcement disrupts Gootloader, seizing domains and taking down over 100 servers linked to 25,000 infected computers. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that law enforceme ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2026
Hacking
Unpatched Check Point Gateways Are Being Wiped exploiting PHP2Shell

Unpatched Check Point gateways were hacked worldwide, leading to root access, backdoors, network intrusion and destructive wiper attacks. Starting on 30 October, an attacker scanned and exploited ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2026
Hacking
New SignDrop Exploit Can Abuse Windows Defender to Bypass Security Protections

SignDrop is a Windows zero-day that abuses CLFS security protections to let local attackers gain SYSTEM privileges and bypass defenses. The researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGH ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2026
Security
The School Bomb Threats Came From Accounts Already in Stolen Data

Hudson Rock researchers found that two university addresses tied to Italy's school bomb threats were in infostealer data. On 11 November, bomb-threat emails hit schools across Europe. ANSA, citing ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2026
Security
Microsoft Cloud Outage Hits Outlook, Teams, Copilot and AI Services

A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot, also breaking OpenAI and Anthropic connectors to Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams went down for thousands of US use ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2026
Malware
Predator, Pegasus and Graphite: Governments Accused of Spyware Abuse Face Little Accountability

Europe's spyware victims face years of legal battles and few answers as governments shield surveillance behind national security. Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis waited almost five years for a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2026
Security
Zoom Fixes Critical Windows Vulnerability Allowing Privilege Escalation

Zoom fixes two Windows Workplace flaws, including a critical bug that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely escalate privileges. Zoom has released security updates to fix two vulnerabilitie ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2026
Security
Poland takes its national e-government platform offline after a cyberattack

Poland takes its e-government platform ePUAP offline after stopping a cyberattack, disrupting access to public services. Poland temporarily shut down ePUAP, the government platform citizens and bu ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2026
Hacking
AI Pentest Tool AntiFox Abused To Steal AWS Credentials

Arctic Wolf saw attackers use the AntiFox pentest platform to hit IIS servers and AWS accounts. Arctic Wolf Labs has published research on attackers using AntiFox, an open-source, Chinese-language ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2026
Data Breach
WhiteArmor Demands $5 Million from Maersk, Claims Theft of 100GB of Data

Maersk confirms a data breach involving a legacy system, while WhiteArmor claims 100GB of stolen data and demands a $5 million ransom. A.P. Moller Maersk, the Danish shipping giant, says it identi ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2026
Malware
Hackers Advertise a $1,000 Gmail Tool That Allegedly Survives Password Resets

Hackers advertise a $1,000-a-month tool claiming persistent Gmail access after password resets, but its effectiveness remains unverified. A developer of hacking tools is selling a $1,000 per month ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2026
Hacking
Microsoft November Patch Tuesday: one exploited Outlook bug and 30 wormable flaws

Microsoft November Patch Tuesday security updates fix 1,090 flaws, including one exploited Outlook bug and 30 potentially wormable issues. Microsoft November Patch Tuesday addressed about 1,090 ne ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds IBM, SignalWire FreeSwitch, OpenSSH, and GPUStack flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds IBM, SignalWire FreeSwitch, OpenSSH, and GPUStack flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurit ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2026
APT
Russia-Linked APT Turla Turned Exchange Servers Into Their Own Control Room

ESET found Russia-Linked APT group Turla using a new toolset, dubbed Cereal, on government Exchange servers in Kazakhstan and Romania. ESET Research detailed a previously undocumented toolset it ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2026
Hacking
iOS Sandbox Escape Is Public, and Apple Hasn't Confirmed a Fix

A public iOS sandbox escape could expose wallet keys, Binance warns. No attacks are reported and no fix is confirmed. On 10 November, Binance warned users about a public iOS sandbox escape that le ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2026
Breaking News
Google fixes the eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026

Google patched nine Chrome flaws, including a V8 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-125350, that attackers have been actively exploiting in the wild. Google has addressed multiple security vulnerab ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2026
Data Breach
Iris Ohyama data breach may expose personal information of 7.7 million people

Iris Ohyama warns that a cloud data breach may have exposed personal information of 7.7 million customers, including names and passwords. Japanese household goods manufacturer Iris Ohyama has disc ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2026