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A flaw in the Forminator plugin impacts hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites
Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2024

Japan's CERT warns of a vulnerability in the Forminator WordPress plugin that allows unrestricted file uploads to the server. Japan's CERT warned that the WordPress plugin Forminator, developed b ...

Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims
Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. A joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, Europol, ...

DuneQuixote campaign targets the Middle East with a complex backdoor
Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered the DuneQuixote ca ...

Security Affairs newsletter Round 468 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2024

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly Securi ...

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Malware
Operation Zero Disco: Threat actors targets Cisco SNMP flaw to drop Linux rootkits

Hackers exploit Cisco SNMP flaw CVE-2025-20352 in “Zero Disco” attacks to deploy Linux rootkits on outdated systems, researchers report. Trend Micro researchers disclosed details of a new camp ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
APT
China-linked APT Jewelbug targets Russian IT provider in rare cross-nation cyberattack

China-linked APT Jewelbug targeted a Russian IT provider for five months in 2025, showing Russia remains exposed to Chinese cyber espionage. China-linked threat actor Jewelbug (aka CL-STA-0049, Ea ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds SKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds OracSKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Data Breach
Spanish fashion retailer MANGO disclosed a data breach

Spanish fashion retailer MANGO disclosed a data breach after a marketing vendor compromise exposed customer personal information. Mango is a global fashion brand founded in Barcelona in 1984, it h ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
Qilin Ransomware announced new victims

Resecurity’s new report details how the Qilin RaaS group relies on global bulletproof hosting networks to support its extortion operations. The following new report by Resecurity will explore th ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Security
A sophisticated nation-state actor breached F5 systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed flaw

F5 disclosed that a sophisticated nation-state actor breached its systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed product vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity firm F5 disclosed that a highl ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Hacking
200,000 Linux systems from Framework are shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass

About 200K Linux systems from Framework shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass, allowing bootkit installation and persistence. Firmware security company Eclypsium war ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Security
SAP fixed maximum-severity bug in NetWeaver

SAP addressed 13 new flaws, including a maximum severity vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver, which could lead to arbitrary command execution. SAP addressed 13 new vulnerabilities, including a maximu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Hacking
Unencrypted satellites expose global communications

Researchers found nearly half of geostationary satellites leak unencrypted data, exposing consumer, corporate, and military communications. A group of researchers from UC San Diego and the Univers ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
APT
Flax Typhoon APT exploited ArcGIS server for over a year as a backdoor

China-linked cyberespionage group Flax Typhoon hijacked an ArcGIS system for over a year and used it as a backdoor. China-linked APT group Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda or RedJuliett) compromis ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Security
Researchers warn of widespread RDP attacks by 100K-node botnet

A botnet of 100K+ IPs from multiple countries is attacking U.S. RDP services in a campaign active since October 8. GreyNoise researchers uncovered a large-scale botnet that is targeting Remote Des ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025
Security
Harvard University hit in Oracle EBS cyberattack, 1.3 TB of data leaked by Cl0p group

Harvard University confirmed being targeted in the Oracle EBS campaign after the Cl0p ransomware group leaked 1.3 TB of data. Harvard University confirmed it was targeted in the Oracle E-Business ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025
Security
UK NCSC Reports 429 cyberattacks in a year, with nationally significant cases more than doubling

The UK’s NCSC handled 429 cyberattacks from Sept 2024–Aug 2025, including 204 nationally significant cases, over double the previous year’s total. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre ( ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025
Hacking
Unverified COTS hardware enables persistent attacks in small satellites via SpyChain

SpyChain shows how unverified COTS hardware in small satellites can enable persistent, multi-component supply chain attacks using NASA’s NOS3 simulator. The rise of small satellites has transfor ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025
Security
Oracle issued an emergency security update to fix new E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2025-61884

Oracle issued an emergency security update to address a new E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61884. Oracle released an emergency patch to address an information disclosure ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025
Data Breach
Customer payment data stolen in Unity Technologies’s SpeedTree website compromise

Malicious code on Unity Technologies’s SpeedTree site skimmed sensitive data from hundreds of customers, the company confirmed. Video game software development firm Unity Technologies revealed t ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2025
Uncategorized
SimonMed Imaging discloses a data breach impacting over 1.2 million people

Medusa ransomware hit SimonMed Imaging, stealing 200 GB of data and impacting over 1.2 million people in a major healthcare data breach. SimonMed Imaging suffered a ransomware attack by the Medusa ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2025
Security
Microsoft revamps Internet Explorer Mode in Edge after August attacks

Microsoft updated Edge’s Internet Explorer mode after August 2025 reports that attackers exploited it to access users’ devices without authorization. Microsoft updated Edge’s Internet Explor ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2025
Cyber Crime
Astaroth Trojan abuses GitHub to host configs and evade takedowns

The Astaroth banking Trojan uses GitHub to host malware configs, evade C2 takedowns and stay active by pulling new settings from the platform. McAfee discovered a new Astaroth campaign using GitHu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2025