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Even More Evidence That Russian Was Meddling in the 2016 US Election
Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2017

Evidence that Russian hackers attempted to interfere with the 2016 US Election continues to pile up, DHS notified states whose systems were hit by APTs. Evidence that Russia attempted to interfere w ...

Oracle releases security patches for Apache Struts CVE-2017-9805 Flaw exploited in the wild
Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2017

Oracle fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited in the wild for the past few weeks. Oracle has released patches for vulnerabili ...

Deloitte targeted by a cyber attack that exposed clients’ secret emails
Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017

The accountancy firm Deloitte announced it is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised its global email server. Today the accountancy firm giant Deloitte revealed that is has ...

Adobe accidentally leaked online its Private PGP Key
Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017

The Adobe product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published a private PGP key on its blog, once discovered the issue it quickly revoked it. On Friday, the Adobe PSIRT updated it ...

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APT
Meet GREYVIBE, the Russia-Linked Hacking Group Using AI to Target Ukraine and Still Making Rookie Mistakes

GREYVIBE, a Russia-linked group active since 2025, targets Ukraine with AI-assisted malware and five attack chains. Researchers say it's part spy op, part crime gang. Security firm WithSecure has ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2026
Security
DIL Observatory: when the World Escalates, the Underground Responds

Digital Intelligence Lab (DIL) launches an observatory for reading cyber events as what they actually are: signals of a broader social and geopolitical reality. The timing rarely lies, and the con ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2026
Security
Microsoft Calls the Zero-Day Dumps Irresponsible. The Researcher Says Microsoft Started It.

A researcher dropped 6 Windows zero-days with no warning. Three are now exploited in the wild. Microsoft is angry. The researcher says Microsoft ignored them first. Over the past month, a research ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2026
Malware
BTMOB RAT Gives Criminals a Point-and-Click Kit to Take Over Your Android Phone

BTMOB sells Android full-device takeover as a kit, no coding needed. It steals data, records screens, and hands attackers remote control for $5,000 lifetime. Most Android malware requires at least ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2026
Uncategorized
Carnival Data Breach Exposes Personal Data of Nearly 6 Million Customers

Carnival disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people after hackers used social engineering to access employee accounts. Carnival Corporation is notifying nearly 6 million people afte ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Malware
CVE-2026-35616: FortiClient EMS Flaw Actively Exploited in Malware Attacks

Threat actors are exploiting a critical FortiClient EMS flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, to deploy malware on unpatched systems. Threat actors are exploiting a critical FortiClient EMS vulnerabili ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Security
Resecurity Supports Microsoft DCU in Disrupting Fox Tempest ’s Cybercriminal Code-Signing Ecosystem

Microsoft and Resecurity disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing service that used fake Microsoft certificates to make malware look legitimate. Resecurity supported Microsoft’s Digital Crimes U ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Daemon Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Daemon Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Security
A Fake UK Visa Site Left 100,000 Passports Wide Open

A third-party UK visa site exposed passports and selfies on a public AWS server. It’s not official GOV.UK and affected at least 100,000 documents. UK Visa Portal is not run by the British govern ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Ag ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Security
19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required

19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There's a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2026
Cyber Crime
Romanian Hacker Gets Nearly 5 Years in US Prison Over Network Intrusion

Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) got 4 years and 8 months in prison for selling access to an Oregon state network. Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) will spend 4 years and 8 months in a U ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
Hacktivism
The LA Metro Attack Wasn't Hacktivism. It Was a State Operation With a Costume On.

Iran's "hacktivist" group Ababil of Minab, which hit LA Metro and wiped terabytes of data, is forensically linked to Iran's intelligence service MOIS. In late March, a group calling itself Ababil ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
Cyber Crime
How cybersecurity firms took down Glassworm botnet in one shot

Glassworm infected developers through poisoned tools and packages until a coordinated takedown killed all four of its C2 channels at once. On May 26, 2026, at 14:00 UTC, CrowdStrike Counter Advers ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
Security
Dutch Government just said no to an American firm buying the keys to their digital State

The Dutch government blocked Kyndryl’s €100M bid for Solvinity, citing national security concerns over critical digital infrastructure. Dutch Government told Kyndryl it can't buy Solvinity. Th ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
Security
Microsoft SharePoint Has a New RCE Flaw. If You Haven't Patched Yet, Go Do That.

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, in Microsoft SharePoint can allow attackers to achieve remote code execution with little effort. Microsoft released security updates to patch a ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2026
Cyber Crime
The Hidden Ransomware Economy Running on Exposed Databases

A 5-year study on the Ransomware Economy found that 30,515 exposed databases were hit by ransom attacks, causing massive damage despite victims never paying. Database extortion doesn’t look like ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026
Security
Malware Found in Laravel-Lang Composer Packages After Git Tag Poisoning Attack

Attackers have poisoned four Laravel-Lang Composer packages by rewriting hundreds of Git tags, putting many Laravel apps at risk. Hackers compromised four popular Laravel-Lang Composer packages an ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026
APT
Nimbus Manticore Expanded Attacks With AI-Assisted Malware and Fake Zoom Installers

Nimbus Manticore accelerated cyberattacks during wartime, using AI-assisted malware, fake Zoom installers, and SEO poisoning. When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran at th ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026
APT
Lazarus APT unveils fileless remote access Trojan designed to evade detection

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group is using a stealthy memory-only RAT that leaves almost no forensic traces behind. North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has never been shy about its ambitions, ...

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2026