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Waiting for a court ruling, a New York Judge rejected FBI request to unlock an iPhone
Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

The federal magistrate Judge James Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, rejecting the FBI request to unlock an iPhone. In the last weeks, we have followed the dispute between Apple and FBI re ...

Two Years to General Data Protection Regulation Compliance
Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governs the use and privacy of EU citizens’ data and the Data Protection Directive governs the use of EU citizens’ data by law enforcement. EU Data P ...

New HackingTeam OS X RCS spyware in the wild, who is behind the threat?
Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

A new OS X sample of the Hacking Team RCS has been detected in the wild, who is managing it? Is the HackingTeam back? A group of malware researchers has discovered a new strain of Mac malware undetec ...

European police corps arrested operators behind darknets offering illegal products and services
Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

A coordinated operation of law enforcement agencies in 7 countries raided operators of darknets trading in illegal products and services. A joint effort of law enforcement agencies in seven European ...

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Hacking
Hackers exploit Fortra GoAnywhere flaw before public alert

watchTowr Labs says hackers exploited the Fortra GoAnywhere MFT flaw CVE-2025-10035 on Sept 10, 2025, a week before public disclosure. Cybersecurity firm watchTowr Labs revealed that it has 'credi ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2025
Hacking
UK NCSC warns that attackers exploited Cisco firewall zero-days to deploy RayInitiator and LINE VIPER malware

UK NCSC warns that threat actors exploited Cisco firewall zero-days to deploy new malware strains RayInitiator and LINE VIPER. The U.K. NCSC reported that threat actors exploited recently disclose ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2025
Malware
Google warns of Brickstorm backdoor targeting U.S. legal and tech sectors

China-linked actors used Brickstorm malware to spy on U.S. tech and legal firms, stealing data undetected for over a year, Google warns. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed the use o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2025
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds CISCO Secure Firewall ASA and Secure FTD flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds CISCO Secure Firewall ASA and Secure FTD flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastr ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2025
Cyber Crime
Operation HAECHI VI seized $439M from global cybercrime rings

Interpol announced that Operation HAECHI VI seized $439M from global cybercrime rings, with 40 countries joining the five-month crackdown. Interpol announced that an international law enforcement ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2025
Data Breach
Volvo North America disclosed a data breach following a ransomware attack on IT provider Miljödata

Volvo North America disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of its employees after a ransomware attack hit third-party supplier Miljödata. Volvo NA disclosed a data breach that ex ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2025
Hacking
Cisco fixed actively exploited zero-day in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software

Cisco addressed a high-severity zero-day in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Cisco fixed an actively exploited zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-2 ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2025
Hacking
Nation-State hackers exploit Libraesva Email Gateway flaw

State-sponsored hackers exploited a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, in Libraesva Email Gateway via malicious attachments. Nation-state actors exploited a command injection flaw, tracked ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
Security
SolarWinds fixed a critical RCE flaw in its Web Help Desk software

SolarWinds fixed a critical flaw in its Web Help Desk software that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable systems. SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critic ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
Hacking
How threat actors breached a U.S. federal civilian agency by exploiting a GeoServer flaw

US CISA revealed that threat actors exploited an unpatched vulnerability in GeoServer to breach a U.S. federal civilian agency’s network. Threat actors breached a U.S. federal agency via unpatch ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
Security
Cloudflare mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack at 22.2 Tbps

Cloudflare blocked a new record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 billion packets per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-ser ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (C ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
Intelligence
US Secret Service dismantled covert communications network near the U.N. in New York

Secret Service seizes a covert communications network near U.N. composed of sophisticated equipment, including 100K SIMs and 300 servers The U.S. Secret Service uncovered a covert communications n ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
Cyber Crime
A suspected Scattered Spider member suspect detained for casino network attacks

A suspected Scattered Spider member linked to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos was arrested on September 17. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested on September 17 a suspected Sca ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
Security
$150K awarded for L1TF Reloaded exploit that bypasses cloud mitigations

Researchers earned $150K for “L1TF Reloaded,” combining L1TF and half-Spectre to leak VM memory from public clouds despite mitigations. Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam earned $15 ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
Cyber Crime
Canada's RCMP closes TradeOgre, seizes $40M in country’s largest crypto bust

RCMP shuts down TradeOgre, seizing $40M from crime, the first crypto exchange closure and largest asset seizure in Canada’s history. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police shut down the crypto exchan ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
Data Breach
Stellantis probes data breach linked to third-party provider

Stellantis is investigating a data breach after unauthorized access to a third-party provider’s platform potentially exposed customer data. Car maker giant Stellantis announced it is investigati ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
Cyber Crime
FBI alerts public to spoofed IC3 site used in fraud schemes

The FBI warns that criminals are spoofing the IC3 site to steal personal data and commit fraud targeting cybercrime reporters. The FBI warned that attackers are spoofing the official Crime Complai ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
Security
EU agency ENISA says ransomware attack behind airport disruptions

The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA confirmed that airport check-in disruptions were caused by a cyberattack, and law enforcement is investigating. A cyber attack on Collins Aerospace disrupted chec ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
Malware
Researchers expose MalTerminal, an LLM-enabled malware pioneer

SentinelOne uncovered MalTerminal, the earliest known malware with built-in LLM capabilities, and presented it at LABScon 2025. SentinelLABS researchers discovered MalTerminal, the earliest known ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025