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Zyxel fixed a critical RCE flaw in its firewall devices and urges customers to install the patches
Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023

A vulnerability impacting Zyxel firewalls, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, can be exploited to execute arbitary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers from TRAPA Security have discovered a critical r ...

Ukraine cyber police arrested a man for selling data of 300M people
Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023

The Ukrainian cyber police arrested a Ukraine man for selling the data of over 300 million people from different countries. The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a man (36) from the city of Net ...

Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors
Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023

Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer. Google announced that a federal judge in the Southern District of New York u ...

Researchers found the first Linux variant of the RTM locker
Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2023

RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) started offering locker ransomware that targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi systems. The Uptycs threat research team discovered the first ransomware binary attributed ...

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Security
SonicWall Fixes Max Severity Pre-Auth Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall patched a CVSS 10 pre-auth SSRF flaw in SMA1000 appliances that could let unauthenticated attackers reach internal functions. SonicWall released hotfixes for four vulnerabilities in its ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Cyber Crime
FortiBleed hit 86,000 firewalls by exploiting something nobody can patch away

FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed, a credential-harvesting campaign against Fortinet firewalls, has compromised 86,644 devices and is locking out admins. The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service i ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Hacking
CERT-UA: Fake Cloudflare Checks Deliver LunexStealer Malware

Over 100 hacked websites used fake Cloudflare checks to trick visitors into installing LunexStealer through ClickFix commands. The lure is the now-familiar ClickFix technique, dressed up as Cloudf ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Creates Three Tiers for Claude Cyber Access

Anthropic created three access tiers for Claude's offensive security use, matching cyber capabilities and safeguards to the user's level of trust. Anthropic is trying to solve the difficult balanc ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Wikimedia Finds Unauthorized OpenAI Agent Activity on Wikipedia

Wikimedia found unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, including unapproved edits, proxy attempts and millions of automated API requests. Wikimedia ran its own investigation after ot ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2026
Security
CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely

Microsoft released emergency updates for Exchange Server to fix CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity flaw that can let attackers gain higher privileges. Microsoft has released out-of-band security upda ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Data Breach
FBI Drops Accenture Contractor After Sensitive Data Breach

Accenture lost an FBI contract after a missed security patch exposed sensitive employee data, raising serious concerns over operational security. The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its acc ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Security
Dell Urges Customers to Patch Critical DSU Flaw That Can Give Attackers Root Access

Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged customers to patch a critical flaw, tracked a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Uncategorized
ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public STUN Infrastructure

Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026
Data Breach
Denmark ’s Population Registry Breached, 8.8 Million Affected

Hackers accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people in Denmark through a third-party company with legal registry access. A hacker broke into the database that holds basically e ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (C ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Intelligence
MI5 Raises Alarm Over Chinese Funding of UK Academic Research

MI5 warns UK universities that over 100 academics may have unknowingly worked on research funded by a Chinese institute linked to the MSS. On September 30, MI5 published a formal warning naming th ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Security
Iranian hacker accused of draining 31TB from university inboxes extradited to the US

Iranian hacker Amir Barati faces extradition to the US over an alleged Iranian campaign that stole 31TB of data from universities. Amir Barati spent June 25 getting arrested in Montenegro, and thi ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Security
Another OpenAI Safety Expert Quits and Raises New AI Safety Concerns

OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson resigns, warning that the company’s culture and fast AI development model could create bigger risks. OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson knows how his resig ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 2

Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2026
Security
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 117

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Steale ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2026
Cyber Crime
ShinyHunters Suspect Detained in Jordan Helps FBI Track Down the Group

A suspected ShinyHunters member arrested in Jordan is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, helping investigators track down the group. A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the group that claims to ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 598 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 October 04, 2026
Malware
Warlock Ransomware Still Exploits Year-Old SharePoint Flaws to Hit Critical Infrastructure

Warlock ransomware continues to exploit unpatched SharePoint flaws to breach water utilities, telecoms, governments, and universities worldwide. Warlock ransomware made headlines back in mid-2025 ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2026
Malware
Fake Zoom installer hides macOS backdoor CloudSyncD

Jamf Threat Labs details CloudSyncD, a fake macOS Zoom installer that hides a phished password using invisible zero-width Unicode characters. Jamf Threat Labs found CloudSyncD while doing routine ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2026