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Carnival Data Breach Exposes Personal Data of Nearly 6 Million Customers
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CVE-2026-35616: FortiClient EMS Flaw Actively Exploited in Malware Attacks
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets Journalists and Activists to Steal Backup Recovery Keys

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Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2026
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BTMOB RAT Gives Criminals a Point-and-Click Kit to Take Over Your Android Phone

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U.S. CISA adds Daemon Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Daemon Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
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A Fake UK Visa Site Left 100,000 Passports Wide Open

A third-party UK visa site exposed passports and selfies on a public AWS server. It’s not official GOV.UK and affected at least 100,000 documents. UK Visa Portal is not run by the British govern ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
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U.S. CISA adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
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19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required

19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There's a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
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Romanian Hacker Gets Nearly 5 Years in US Prison Over Network Intrusion

Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) got 4 years and 8 months in prison for selling access to an Oregon state network. Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) will spend 4 years and 8 months in a U ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
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The LA Metro Attack Wasn't Hacktivism. It Was a State Operation With a Costume On.

Iran's "hacktivist" group Ababil of Minab, which hit LA Metro and wiped terabytes of data, is forensically linked to Iran's intelligence service MOIS. In late March, a group calling itself Ababil ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
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How cybersecurity firms took down Glassworm botnet in one shot

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Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
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Dutch Government just said no to an American firm buying the keys to their digital State

The Dutch government blocked Kyndryl’s €100M bid for Solvinity, citing national security concerns over critical digital infrastructure. Dutch Government told Kyndryl it can't buy Solvinity. Th ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
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Microsoft SharePoint Has a New RCE Flaw. If You Haven't Patched Yet, Go Do That.

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, in Microsoft SharePoint can allow attackers to achieve remote code execution with little effort. Microsoft released security updates to patch a ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
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The Hidden Ransomware Economy Running on Exposed Databases

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Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026
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Malware Found in Laravel-Lang Composer Packages After Git Tag Poisoning Attack

Attackers have poisoned four Laravel-Lang Composer packages by rewriting hundreds of Git tags, putting many Laravel apps at risk. Hackers compromised four popular Laravel-Lang Composer packages an ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026