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Illustrious victim, Cia.gov Tango Down by Anonymous
Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2012

Just this morning I wrote in my article the ability of the Anonymous group that stands out in my assessment for the effectiveness of its operations. I tried to analyze the phenomenon, and I noticed th ...

Anonymous, it could become a cyber weapon
Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2012

The group of hacktivist known as Anonymous is considered as the uncontrollable variable in the cyber space capable of surprising us with striking operations worthy of the most skilled cyber army. ...

Cloud Computing forensic psychological considerations on security
Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2012

Cloud computing will play an increasingly critical role in the future of the information technology sector, impacting individual consumers, corporations, governments, and international commerce ali ...

DDoS, IPv6 is an excuse to talk about
Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2012

The day has come, Network service providers are reporting the first IPV6 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and the event is extremly significat from a secutity point of view. The news has b ...

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Hacking
GhostPairing campaign abuses WhatsApp device linking to hijack accounts

Attackers abuse WhatsApp’s device-linking feature to hijack accounts via pairing codes in the GhostPairing campaign. Attackers are exploiting WhatsApp’s device-linking feature to hijack accoun ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2025
Hacking
SonicWall warns of actively exploited flaw in SMA 100 AMC

SonicWall warned users to patch a SMA1000 AMC flaw that was exploited as a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in attacks. SonicWall urged customers to address a vulnerability, tracked as ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2025
Hacking
GNV ferry Fantastic under cyberattack probe amid remote hijack fears

French prosecutors probe a suspected cyberattack on GNV ferry Fantastic, raising concerns of a possible remote hijack. French prosecutors are investigating a suspected cyberattack on the GNV ferry ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2025
Security
Askul data breach exposed over 700,000 records after ransomware attack

Askul disclosed that an October RansomHouse ransomware attack compromised over 700,000 records at the Japanese e-commerce and logistics firm. Askul is a Japanese e-commerce and logistics company b ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2025
Cyber warfare
Russian state hackers targeted Western critical infrastructure for years, Amazon says

Amazon disclosed a years-long Russian state-backed cyber campaign targeting Western critical infrastructure from 2021 to 2025. Amazon Threat Intelligence reports a long-running Russian state-backe ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in multiple Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. CISA adds a vulnerability impacting multiple products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Fortinet Multipl ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2025
Security
A cyber attack hit Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) disrupting export operations

A cyber attack hit Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Venezuela's state-owned oil company, over the weekend, disrupting its export operations. Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA was hit by a cybe ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2025
Security
Hackers are exploiting critical Fortinet flaws days after patch release

Threat actors are exploiting two critical Fortinet flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719, days after patch release, impacting multiple Fortinet products. Threat actors started exploi ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2025
Data Breach
Pornhub targeted in extortion attempt following Mixpanel breach exposing user activity

Hackers tied to ShinyHunters extort PornHub after stealing search and viewing history of Premium users in a Mixpanel data breach. PornHub faces extortion after hackers linked to ShinyHunters alleg ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2025
Hacking
French Interior Minister says hackers breached its email servers

The French interior minister confirmed that a cyberattack breached the Interior Ministry, compromising its email servers. The French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced on Friday that threat ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2025
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Apple and Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple and Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infras ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2025
Security
Atlassian fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2025-66516 in Apache Tika

Atlassian released security updates to address dozens of flaws, including multiple critical-severity vulnerabilities. Atlassian addressed dozens of vulnerabilities impacting its products, includin ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2025
Data Breach
U.S. fintech and data services firm 700Credit suffered a data breach impacting at least 5.6 million people

A data breach at 700Credit exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of at least 5.6 million people. 700Credit is a U.S. fintech and data services company that prov ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2025
Hacking
CERT-FR recommends completely deactivate Wi-Fi whenever it’s not in use

The CERT-FR (French Computer Emergency Response Team) is advising iPhone and Android users to fully disable Wi-Fi to reduce risk. CERT-FR warns iPhone and Android users to fully disable Wi-Fi to ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2025
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 75

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter UDPGangster Campaigns Target Multiple Co ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 554 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 December 14, 2025
Data Breach
Experts found an unsecured 16TB database containing 4.3B professional records

An open 16TB database exposed 4.3B professional records. It was unsecured and only closed after researchers alerted the owner. A 16TB unsecured MongoDB database exposed about 4.3 billion professio ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2025
APT
Germany calls in Russian Ambassador over air traffic control hack claims

Germany summoned Russia’s ambassador over alleged cyberattacks on air traffic control and a disinformation campaign ahead of national elections. Germany summoned Russia’s ambassador after accu ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium and Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium and Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2025
Hacking
Emergency fixes deployed by Google and Apple after targeted attacks

Google and Apple issued emergency updates to address zero-day flaws exploited in attacks targeting an unknown number of users. Apple and Google have both pushed out urgent security updates after u ...

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2025