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FireEye discovered Android spying components in Winspy RAT
Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2014

FireEye experts investigating on a spear-phishing campaign on an US-based financial institution discovered that common WinSpy RAT was adapted to hit Android devices. FireEye Security Researchers ...

NSA programs MYSTIC and RETRO spies phone calls on global scale, also on past conversations
Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2014

Documents leaked by Snowden reveals that NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording all the phone calls of a foreign country. The information on the surveillance capabilities of the Nat ...

Linux Operation Windigo hit 500000 PC and 25000 dedicated servers
Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2014

Antivirus Firm ESET has been tracking and investigating the operation behind Linux_Ebury uncovering a sophisticated campaign called Operation Windigo. Operation Windigo is the name of a sophisti ...

Darpa is looking for experts from private sector for future cyber ops
Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2014

Darpa is scouting the private companies to recruit high skilled professional and use company infrastructure to protect classified information. The Pentagon is searching cyber experts to address the ...

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Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 100

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Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 580 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 June 07, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers to Support NSA Use of Mythos

Reports claim Anthropic engineers are helping the NSA use its restricted AI model Mythos, known for advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This week, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic has ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
Hacking
Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash's Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.

Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a c ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
Cyber Crime
Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Switching To DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure

Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group 's Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S. law firms and businesses. Resecurity uncovered the Silent Ransom Group (S ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
Security
Cisco SD-WAN Has a New Root-Level Problem, and There's No Fix Yet

Cisco warns of CVE-2026-20245 in SD-WAN Manager, a flaw that can lead to root access via file upload command injection; no patch or workaround yet. Cisco warns of a privilege escalation flaw, trac ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
Cyber Crime
PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network

Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 clo ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Fake Context Alignment: The Attack That Made Gemini Obey Strangers Through Your Notifications

SafeBreach tricked Gemini into obeying attackers via WhatsApp notifications, using hidden foreign-language text to bypass Google's defenses and control smart home devices. SafeBreach Labs research ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Sec ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Hacking
Critical Cisco Unified CM Bug Patched as Public Exploit Code Emerges

Cisco patched a critical Unified CM flaw with public PoC code that allows unauthenticated attackers to launch SSRF attacks remotely. Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as C ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Intelligence
Gamaredon Uses WinRAR Vulnerability to Launch Modular Spy Campaign on Ukrainian Targets

Gamaredon exploits a WinRAR flaw to drop modular, nearly fileless malware on Ukrainian targets, hiding payloads in Windows streams and resolving C2s via Telegram. Sekoia's Threat Detection & R ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Security
Researcher Drops a New VS Code Zero-Day After Losing Trust in Microsoft's Disclosure Process

A researcher publicly released a VS Code exploit within hours, citing past disputes with Microsoft over bug handling. The security researcher Ammar Askar found a new serious zero-day in Visual Stu ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Cyber Crime
29 Arrests, Nine Crime Groups Dismantled: Another Blow to Illegal Streaming

International Operation KRATOS led by Europol dismantled illegal streaming networks, leading to 29 arrests and nine crime groups taken down. An international law enforcement operation, codenamed O ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Intelligence
Cyber espionage campaign targeted stock exchange executive’s Outlook account

Attackers spent five months silently stealing emails from a stock exchange executive's Outlook account in a suspected espionage operation. A threat actor quietly sat inside a senior executive's Ou ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2026
Security
Russia's FSB Says Foreign Spies Infected Officials' Phones With Malware

Russia's FSB claims foreign intelligence planted malware on senior officials' phones to intercept calls and activate cameras. No technical evidence, no country named. On June 2, 2026, Russia's Fed ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Android and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Android and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2026
Breaking News
Google Patches Actively Exploited Android Flaw Affecting Millions of Devices

Google fixed 124 Android flaws, including CVE-2025-48595, an actively exploited privilege escalation bug linked to targeted attacks. Google has released its June 2026 Android security updates, fix ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2026
Security
Why an HP Poly VoIP Phones Bug Could Become an Enterprise Foothold

Rapid7 details a critical unauthenticated overflow in HP Poly VoIP phones that can lead to root RCE, with patches available for affected models. Rapid7’s latest disclosure on CVE-2026-0826 shoul ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2026
Hacking
Instagram Account Hijacks Expose the Security Risks of AI-Powered Support

Attackers exploited Meta’s AI support chatbot to reset Instagram passwords and hijack accounts without accessing victims’ email inboxes. Attackers abused Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2026