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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity: Beyond Triage to Strategic Threat Hunting
Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025

With a 4M cybersecurity worker shortage, agentic AI helps SOCs move beyond triage, enabling proactive security once thought impossible. With a deficit of 4 million cybersecurity workers worldwide, ...

Nine NuGet packages disrupt DBs and industrial systems with time-delayed payloads
Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025

Nine NuGet packages by “shanhai666” can deploy delayed payloads to disrupt databases and industrial systems. Socket's Threat Research Team discovered nine malicious NuGet packages, published b ...

QNAP fixed multiple zero-days in its software demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2025
Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2025

QNAP patched seven zero-days used at Pwn2Own 2025 affecting QTS, QuTS hero, Hyper Data Protector, Malware Remover, and HBS 3. Taiwanese vendor QNAP patched seven zero-day vulnerabilities exploited ...

AI chat privacy at risk: Microsoft details Whisper Leak side-channel attack
Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2025

Microsoft uncovered Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that lets network snoopers infer AI chat topics despite encryption, risking user privacy. Microsoft revealed a new side-channel attack calle ...

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Uncategorized
Crooks Are Buying Your Expired Domains and Using Them to Deliver Malware

Attackers are buying expired domains to exploit their reputation, traffic and DNS history, using them for malware delivery, scams and C2 infrastructure. Every day, roughly 65,000 domain names that ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2026
Uncategorized
macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited to Deploy Monero Miners

Hackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing flaw to gain root access and install Monero miners on Macs with port 5900 exposed online. The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre confirmed active ex ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2026
Hacking
GeoServer Zero-Day Is Already Being Probed. That’s the Problem

GeoServer faces an unpatched zero-day enabling SQL injection and potentially RCE, with attackers already probing exposed systems. A newly disclosed GeoServer zero-day is already attracting active ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2026
Malware
Apple warned hundreds of users of mercenary spyware attacks

Apple warns users of credible, targeted attacks and urges immediate verification, stronger protections, and expert assistance. Apple has sent a new round of threat notifications to users it believ ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2026
Malware
AmnesiaStealer Gives Attackers Live Control of Victims’ macOS Browsers

AmnesiaStealer targets macOS users through fake GitHub pages, stealing passwords, cookies and data while giving attackers live control of the browser. Jamf Threat Labs researchers disclosed Amnesi ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2026
Breaking News
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users - Evidence Points to Scraping

7.3 million Chess.com profiles leaked online: the data is genuine, but evidence points to large-scale scraping, not a server breach. Free is a strange price for stolen data, and that's exactly wha ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2026
Laws and regulations
US Authorizes Private Cyber Firms to Hack Transnational Criminal Networks

Trump authorizes vetted US cybersecurity firms to conduct government-approved cyber operations against transnational criminal networks. President Trump signed a national security memorandum on Aug ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2026
Hacking
Adobe Commerce CVE-2026-71362 Comes Under Attack Shortly After Public Disclosure

Hackers began targeting a critical Adobe Commerce flaw that could let unauthenticated attackers hijack customer accounts and access private data. Hackers began targeting CVE-2026-71362 (CVSS score ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Metabase, Windows, and Cisco Secure Firewall flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Metabase, Windows, and Cisco Secure Firewall flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infr ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026
Hacking
SharePoint CVE-2026-55040 Comes Under Attack Following Public Exploit

Attackers are exploiting SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-55040 after a public PoC was released, allowing unauthenticated users to impersonate administrators. Attackers started exploiting CVE-2026-55040 ( ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026
Malware
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware

Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is using a new ransomware called StormEncryptor, replacing Medusa in its latest attacks. Microsoft says China-linked, financially motivated threat actor Stor ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026
Uncategorized
North Korean Lazarus Group Uses Windows Zero-Day in Operation Dream Job

Lazarus targets defense professionals with fake Lockheed Martin jobs, exploiting a Windows zero-day to deploy backdoors and evade security controls. Check Point Research has uncovered a new wave o ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026
Data Breach
CEVA Logistics Cyberattack Disrupts European Warehouses and Shipments

CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack disrupting European operations, with eight warehouses affected and shipments halted at impacted sites. CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack on July 29 that d ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2026
APT
China-Linked Hackers Use AI Agents in Autonomous Attack on Taiwan

China-linked hackers reportedly used eight AI agents to breach a government network, steal data and compromise accounts with minimal human oversight. Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented wh ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2026
Malware
Kimwolf v7 Hides DDoS Traffic Behind Chrome Fingerprints and Ethereum

Kimwolf v7: The Android TV Botnet That Now Hides Its Traffic Behind Chrome Fingerprints and Ethereum Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered Kimwolf v7 on February 3, 2026, while hunting threats fol ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2026
Security
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2026 Fixed a Zero-Day and Wormable RCE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2026 fixes 398 CVEs, including an actively exploited zero-day and a wormable DNS flaw enabling remote code execution. Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday securi ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2026
Hacking
Zoom Patches “Zoomsday” Zero-Click Flaw Enabling Remote Code Execution

Zoom patches a zero-click flaw that could let a meeting participant execute code on another user’s computer through the annotation feature. Zoom has patched four vulnerabilities, including a cri ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2026
Security
ExfilSquad Targets New Victims, Shares Data via Torrents

ExfilSquad targets 13 organizations, exploiting cloud portals for data theft and using torrents to spread stolen information and amplify damage. Resecurity is tracking the activity of ExfilSquad - ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2026
Hacking
Iran-Linked Hackers Target More US Water Infrastructure in New Jersey and Alabama

Iran-linked hackers targeted Water Infrastructure in New Jersey and Alabama, bringing confirmed attacks to at least 12 states, with limited disruption. The wave of cyberattacks targeting US water ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
The inconvenient truth about AI pentesting: someone has to check all the work

AI pentesting can flood teams with findings they cannot validate. The real challenge is managing “validation debt” as discovery scales. AI pentesting has a 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' problem. Enc ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2026