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NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown
Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026

The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as eas ...

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U.S. CISA adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity ...

Malware
Chosen Brick, Iran's Surveillance Malware
Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026

UK, US, and Dutch agencies expose Chosen Brick, Iranian malware used to track and harass dissidents, journalists, and activists via Telegram. The UK, the US, and the Netherlands published a joint ...

Malware
BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar
Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026

Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new malware family that uses MQTT, a lightweight ...

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Cyber Crime
NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown

The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as eas ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026
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U.S. CISA adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026
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Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
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Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026
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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cisco Warns of Ongoing Exploitation of Critical Email Gateway Zero-Day

Cisco warns of a critical zero-day in Secure Email Gateway, exploited in the wild to gain root access through malicious emails. Cisco disclosed a critical zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
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Shared Hosting at Risk: LiteSpeed Enterprise Bug Can Grant Root from a Single Tenant

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Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
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One Exploit Chain, Two Espionage Campaigns: Chrome and Windows Under Fire

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Telegram Desktop Flaw Could Turn Old Chat Exports Into Data Theft Traps

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Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
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Non-Zero-Day VPN Flaw Left Japan 's Government Shared Network Platform Exposed: 246,000 Records at Risk

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Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
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ENISA: Frontier AI Is Changing the Speed of Cyberattacks. Europe Needs to Catch Up

Frontier AI is compressing the attack lifecycle from vulnerability discovery to exploitation, forcing defenders to detect, patch and respond at machine speed. Cybersecurity has always been a race ...

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

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