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CVE-2016-7200 & CVE-2016-7201 Edge flaws added to the Sundown Exploit Kit
Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2017

The operators behind the Sundown exploit kit have started using two Microsoft Edge flaws just a few days after researchers published a PoC exploit. The Sundown exploit kit is becoming one of the mo ...

Hello Kitty database leaked online, 3.3 million fans affected
Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2017

The Hello Kitty MongoDB database leaked online one year ago recently surface on the web, it includes 3.3 million records belonging to Hello Kitty fans. The security researcher Chris Vickery discover ...

Number of MongoDB ransom attacks peaked 27,000 in a day
Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2017

According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority Antipodes the number of hacked MongoDB databases more than double to 27,000 in just a day. MongoDB ransom attacks soar, according to the ...

Security Researcher hacks “Anti Tracking & Pro Privacy” Brave Browser
Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2017

A flaw in Brave Browser could be exploited by attackers to trick users into visiting a fake or malicious website to serve either malware or conduct phishing attacks. Brave is an open source project t ...

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Malware
Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can't uninstall, seen in 150 countries

Bitdefender finds Midnight Mimosa, preinstalled Android malware on cheap MediaTek phones that fakes ad clicks, drops apps and builds a proxy botnet. Bitdefender researchers discovered a campaign c ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 599 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 11, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ProFTPD, ONLYOFFICE Docs, Strapi, Apache Struts, and ISC BIND to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecuri ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures

Anthropic’s models kept working around the rules on the live internet. The company published the cases. Anthropic released a report on unintended actions its Claude models took during evaluation ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files

Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No m ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Cyber Crime
US Sentences Empire Market Co-Creator Over $430 Million Criminal Marketplace

Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2026
Uncategorized
Germany Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Leader After Japan Detention

Japan helped extradite a Russian suspect linked to Qilin ransomware to Germany, but the gang continued attacking victims after his arrest. Germany has arrested a Russian national believed to be a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Claude Helps Secure Open Source as Anthropic Offers Free Vulnerability Scanning

Anthropic launches free OSS Scanner, using AI to find open-source vulnerabilities and help maintainers fix bugs before attackers exploit them. Anthropic is launching OSS Scanner, a vulnerability s ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Security
US Disrupts China-Linked Integrity Tech 's Cyber Espionage Tools

DOJ and FBI seized China-linked hacking tools Microscan and FishHub, linked to Integrity Tech and attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The Justice Department and FBI took down two hacking ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Hacking
AI-Driven tool ARTEX used in attacks against South Korean Banks

CrowdStrike analyzes open directories left by an attacker who used the ARTEX AI pentest tool and LLMs to breach South Korean financial firms. CrowdStrike published a research on a campaign against ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2026
Cyber warfare
Italy's Foreign Ministry Under Cyberattack as Embassy Sites Come Under Review

Italy's Foreign Ministry is defending its website against a cyberattack, checking embassy sites and pushing for EU action to identify attackers. On the morning of October 8, Italy's Ministry of Fo ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
Hunt.io Finds New Infrastructure Of BraZetsu Access Broker Months Before Disclosure

Hunt.io traced BraZetsu 's infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers published a detailed write ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Cyber Crime
MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands

MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of Florida-based MonsterC ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Intelligence
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu

The U.S. offers $10M for Zhang Yu, accused of helping run HAFNIUM attacks that compromised thousands of organizations worldwide. The U.S. State Department is offering a $10 million reward for info ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Security
Atlassian Vulnerability Comes Under Attack Hours After Details Go Public

Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-21589, a critical Atlassian flaw that can expose sensitive files across multiple Data Center products. Threat actors have started exploiting CVE-2026-21589 (C ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
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