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Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control
Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2026

Mirax, a new Android RAT, spread via Meta ads, infected 220,000 users and turns devices into SOCKS5 proxies, giving attackers full remote control. Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan sprea ...

PHP Composer flaws enable remote command execution via Perforce VCS
Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2026

Two high-severity flaws in PHP Composer could let attackers run arbitrary commands via malicious repository configs and crafted inputs affecting Perforce VCS. Two high-severity vulnerabilities in ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 fixed actively exploited SharePoint zero-day
Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2026

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2026 fixed 165 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited SharePoint zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulne ...

Personal data of 1 million gym members compromised in Basic-Fit security incident
Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2026

A breach at Basic-Fit exposed data of 1M members, including names, birth dates and bank details after unauthorized access. Basic-Fit, Europe’s largest gym chain, has disclosed a data breach affe ...

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Security
CVE-2026-9082: Drupal's Highly Critical SQL Injection Flaw Is Already Under Active Attack

Attackers began exploiting Drupal SQL injection flaw CVE-2026-9082 within 48 hours of patch release. Drupal issued a highly critical security patch on May 20 for CVE-2026-9082, a SQL injection vul ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2026
Cyber Crime
Why pure extortion is replacing traditional ransomware

Ransomware gangs are shifting from encryption to pure extortion, focusing on stolen data, reputational pressure, and stealthier attacks. Ransomware groups are quietly changing strategy in 2026. In ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2026
APT
Ghostwriter Is Back, Using a Ukrainian Learning Platform as Bait to Hit Government Targets

Ghostwriter targeted Ukrainian government agencies with phishing emails delivering malware and Cobalt Strike payloads. The Belarus-nexus APT group Ghostwriter (also tracked as UAC-0057 and UNC1151 ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2026
Cyber Crime
Authorities arrest 23-year-old accused of running the Kimwolf botnet

Canadian authorities arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man accused of running the Kimwolf DDoS botnet. The US is now seeking extradition. US authorities have charged 23-year-old Jacob Butler (aka “D ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2026
Hacking
One Telecom Provider Hosted Most of the Middle East ’s Active C2 Infrastructure

Hunt.io mapped 1,350+ C2 servers across the Middle East, revealing how a small group of providers quietly supports major malware activity. For years, threat intelligence focused mostly on malware ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Cyber Crime
Global law enforcement operation takes First VPN offline

Police seized First VPN in a global crackdown, exposed its cybercrime users, and shut down infrastructure tied to ransomware and data theft. A major international law enforcement operation has tak ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Apple Blocks Over 2 Million Apps in 2025 Fraud Crackdown

Apple 2025 fraud report shows major App Store protections: over 2M apps rejected, 1B fake accounts blocked, and billions in fraud prevented. Apple 's annual fraud prevention report for 2025 paints ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Hacking
Attackers are bypassing MFA on SonicWall VPNs because something was wrong with previous fix

Attackers bypassed MFA on patched SonicWall Gen6 VPNs because admins missed extra manual steps required to fully fix the flaw. There is a particular kind of security failure that is harder to catc ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Cisco fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2026-20223 in Secure Workload

Cisco fixed a critical Secure Workload flaw (CVE-2026-20223) that could let attackers gain Site Admin privileges through crafted API requests. Cisco released patches for a critical vulnerability, ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
Discord adds end-to-end encryption to voice and video calls by default

Discord now enables end-to-end encryption by default for all voice and video calls, making conversations inaccessible even to the platform itself. No announcement fanfare, no opt-in required, no s ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2026
Security
PinTheft: Another Linux Privilege Escalation, Another Working Exploit, This Time Targeting Arch

PinTheft is a Linux LPE flaw in the RDS subsystem with public exploit code. Arch Linux users face the highest risk and should patch immediately. The wave of Linux local privilege escalation vulner ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Hacking
Microsoft issues YellowKey mitigation, no patch yet

Microsoft acknowledged the YellowKey BitLocker bypass flaw and released mitigations, urging admins to disable autofstx.exe and enable TPM+PIN. A week after Chaotic Eclipse publicly dropped the Yel ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
Carding site B1ack’s Stash dumps 4.6 Million stolen cards for free 

Carding forum B1ack's Stash claims to have released millions of stolen CVV2 payment card records for free after suspending sellers. B1ack's Stash, one of the most active stolen card marketplaces o ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Cyber Crime
A malicious VS code extension just breached GitHub 's internal repositories

One employee installed a trojanized VS Code extension. Result: ~3,800 GitHub internal repositories exfiltrated. TeamPCP claims credit, wants $50K. There is something almost ironic about GitHub, th ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Uncategorized
DirtyDecrypt: PoC Released for yet another Linux flaw

DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-31635): working PoC out for a Linux kernel LPE flaw. Missing COW guard in rxgk_decrypt_skb lets local attackers reach root. After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia, here ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Hacking
Alleged Huawei zero-day blamed for the 2025 Luxembourg telecom crash

A Huawei zero-day flaw reportedly caused Luxembourg’s 2025 nationwide outage, disrupting landline, 4G/5G, and emergency services On July 23, 2025, a nationwide telecom outage in Luxembourg was r ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2026
Security
Drupal is rolling out an emergency security update on May 20. You cannot miss it

Drupal Is Pushing an Emergency Security Update Tomorrow. If You Run a Drupal Site, This Is Not One to Miss. Something significant is coming out of the Drupal project tomorrow, and the way the anno ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Cyber Crime
Microsoft dismantled malware-signing network Fox Tempest

Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) that allowed attackers to sign malware with fake trusted certificates. Microsoft said it disrupted a cybercrime operation ru ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026
Intelligence
Poland shifts away from Signal following cyberattacks on officials’ accounts

Poland told officials to stop using the popular instant messaging app Signal after cyberattacks targeted government accounts. Poland has instructed government officials to stop using Signal for se ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2026