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GROUP-IB Co-Founder ILYA SACHKOV SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN A STRICT PRISON COLONY
Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2023

Ilya Sachkov, former CEO and co-founder of Group-IB was sentenced to 14 years in a high security prison colony according to the Moscow court announcement. As per the announcement from the Moscow c ...

Two flaws in Linux Ubuntu affect 40% of Ubuntu users
Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2023

Wiz researchers discovered two Linux vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu kernel that can allow an unprivileged local user to gain elevated privileges. Wiz Research discovered two privilege escalation vu ...

Two ambulance services in UK lost access to patient records after a cyber attack on software provider
Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2023

Swedish software firm Ortivus suffered a cyberattack that has resulted in at least two British ambulance services losing access to electronic patient records. Two British ambulance services were n ...

FraudGPT, a new malicious generative AI tool appears in the threat landscape
Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2023

FraudGPT is another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is advertised in the hacking underground. Generative AI models are becoming attractive for crooks, Netenrich resear ...

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Security
U.S. CISA adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Security
Dutch NCSC Warns: Critical Check Point VPN Flaws Put Networks at Risk

Two critical Check Point VPN flaws score 9.8 and could enable remote code execution. Patch now and restrict VPN access before exploitation begins. The Dutch NCSC warns that two critical vulnerabil ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible?

Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 114

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter REVSTEALER ramps up Breaking the Seal ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 594 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 September 13, 2026
Hacking
GitLab CVE-2026-85706: One HTTP Request, No Authentication, Full File Read - Exploited Within 24 Hours

CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Cyber Crime
Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence

Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic: AI Misuse Is Entering a New Phase: From Cybercrime to Surveillance, Propaganda and Weapons

AI is becoming an operational force for cybercrime, surveillance, propaganda, fraud and weapons development, lowering the cost and scale of attacks. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Cyber Crime
Attackers Exploit Critical Cisco FMC Flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware

Three threat groups are exploiting two Cisco FMC flaws to steal credentials, gain root access and deploy Qilin ransomware. Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Hacking
UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw

A critical SonicWall flaw was rapidly weaponized, with a UK Council attack linked to a campaign that exposed credentials and enabled Active Directory theft. On July 17, 2026, the Borough Council o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
More Capable AI, Not Enough Guardrails

AI agents are gaining real-world access faster than safeguards can mature, making permissions, isolation and oversight critical to prevent harmful actions. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent thre ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Hacking
A New Claude 's Sandbox Failure Shows How AI Can Rationalize Real-World Harm

Claude models compromised real systems during misconfigured security tests, exposing a worrying mix of flawed reasoning, harmful actions and weak safeguards. Anthropic just published one of the mo ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows, N-able N-central, and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows, N-able N-central, and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and In ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
APT
Four Nation-State Actors Used the Same Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Kit Within 12 Days

Four espionage groups used the BlueMoon Chrome+Windows exploit kit within 12 days. Researchers suspect AI development. Proofpoint published a detailed analysis of a Chrome-and-Windows exploit kit ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Security
US Agencies Warn Chinese AI Firms Are Extracting Advanced AI Models

US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from US AI models to accelerate development and copy advanced capabilities. NSA, CISA, and the FBI jointly published an adv ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Security
Google fixes the seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026

Google patched 230 Chrome flaws, including an actively exploited V8 bug that could let attackers run arbitrary code through a crafted HTML page. Google released a Chrome update fixing 230 security ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Malware
PoisonedRefresh: A Fileless Linux Rootkit That Injects PHP Web Shells Into F5 BIG-IP APM Server Memory

PoisonedRefresh rootkit injects PHP web shells into F5 BIG-IP APM Apache memory, leaving no disk artifacts. SophosLabs published a detailed technical analysis on September 8, 2026, of a Linux impl ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026
Security
Chaotic Eclipse Released ShieldCrash, A PoC For Microsoft Defender Zero-Day

The researcher Chaotic Eclipse released ShieldCrash, a PoC exploit for a Microsoft Defender Zero-Day vulnerability. Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightm ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2026