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MEF – Annual Report 2015 - Payment card frauds
Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2015

The CENTRAL MEANS OF PAYMENT ANTIFRAUD OFFICE (UCAMP) of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance released the annual report on Payment card frauds. This year I'm among the experts who worked on t ...

NSA SHARKSEER program aims to detect and mitigate malware Zero-Day
Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2015

The NSA SHARKSEER Program is a project that aims to detect and mitigate web-based malware Zero-Day and Advanced Persistent Threats using COTS technology. Every day, thousands of cyber attack rely on ...

USB Killer 2.0 - How to easily burn a PC with a USB device
Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2015

In March I presented the PoC of a computer-frying Killer USB pendrive designed by the Russian researcher, now the USB Killer 2.0 is arrived! Do you remember the killer USB? In March I presen ...

European Aviation Safety Agency - Airplane hacking is reality
Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2015

European Aviation Safety Agency European Aviation confirmed the concerns about the Airplane hacking. Hackers could easily infiltrate critical systems. On October 8, 2015, the director of the European ...

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Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 81

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Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 560 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 January 25, 2026
Security
Osiris ransomware emerges, leveraging BYOVD technique to kill security tools

Researchers identified a new Osiris ransomware used in a November 2025 attack, abusing the POORTRY driver via BYOVD to disable security tools. Symantec and Carbon Black researchers uncovered a new ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Broadcom VMware vCenter to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastruc ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2026
Security
11-Year-Old critical telnetd flaw found in GNU InetUtils (CVE-2026-24061)

Critical telnetd flaw CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS 9.8) affects all GNU InetUtils versions 1.9.3–2.7 and went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS sco ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2026
Security
Fortinet warns of active FortiCloud SSO bypass affecting updated devices

Fortinet confirmed attacks are bypassing FortiCloud SSO authentication, affecting even fully patched devices, similar to recent SSO flaws. Fortinet confirmed attacks bypass FortiCloud SSO on fully ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Prettier eslint-config-prettier, Vite Vitejs, Versa Concerto SD-WAN orchestration platform, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Prettier eslint-config-prettier, Vite Vitejs, Versa Concerto SD-WAN orchestration platform, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite f ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
Data Breach
Investigation underway after 72M Under Armour records surface online

Under Armour is investigating a data breach after 72M customer records were posted online by a cybercriminal. Under Armour is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells sportswear, ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
Malware
Machine learning–powered Android Trojans bypass script-based Ad Click detection

A new Android click-fraud trojan family uses TensorFlow ML to visually detect and tap ads, bypassing traditional script-based click techniques. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Dr.Web discovered ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
Hacking
Critical SmarterMail vulnerability under attack, no CVE yet

A SmarterMail flaw (WT-2026-0001) is under active attack just days after its January 15 patch, with no CVE assigned yet. A newly disclosed flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail is being actively exploi ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
Hacking
Arctic Wolf detects surge in automated Fortinet FortiGate firewall configuration attacks

Arctic Wolf warned of a new wave of automated attacks making unauthorized firewall configuration changes on Fortinet FortiGate devices. Arctic Wolf researchers reported a new automated attack clus ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
Uncategorized
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
Security
Zoom fixed critical Node Multimedia Routers flaw

Zoom addressed a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22844, that could result in remote code execution. Cloud-based video conferencing and online collaboration platform Zoom relea ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
Security
ACME flaw in Cloudflare allowed attackers to reach origin servers

Cloudflare fixed a flaw in its ACME validation logic that could let attackers bypass security checks and access protected origin servers. Cloudflare fixed a flaw in its ACME HTTP-01 validation log ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
Cyber Crime
Crooks impersonate LastPass in campaign to harvest master passwords

Password manager LastPass warns of an active phishing campaign impersonating the service to steal users’ master passwords. LastPass warned users about an active phishing campaign that began arou ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
Malware
VoidLink shows how one developer used AI to build a powerful Linux malware

VoidLink is a cloud-focused Linux malware, likely built by one person using AI, offering loaders, implants, rootkit evasion, and modular plugins. Check Point researchers uncovered VoidLink, a clou ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
Malware
PDFSIDER Malware - Exploitation of DLL Side-Loading for AV and EDR Evasion

Threat actors use PDFSIDER malware with social engineering and DLL sideloading to bypass AV/EDR, and ransomware gangs already abuse it. Resecurity has learned about PDFSIDER during an investigatio ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
Access broker caught: Jordanian pleads guilty to hacking 50 companies

A Jordanian man pleaded guilty in the US to selling illegal access to 50 compromised enterprise networks after an undercover sting. A Jordanian national Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti (40), living i ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2026
Hacking
Critical TP-Link VIGI camera flaw allowed remote takeover of surveillance systems

TP-Link fixed a critical flaw that exposed over 32 VIGI C and VIGI InSight camera models to remote hacking, with over 2,500 internet-exposed devices identified. TP-Link fixed a high-severity flaw, ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
Telegram-based illicit billionaire marketplace Tudou Guarantee stopped transactions

Major Telegram-based illicit marketplace Tudou Guarantee appears to be shutting down its operations, according to Elliptic. Blockchain cybersecurity firm Elliptic reports that Tudou Guarantee, a m ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2026