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Expedia Hacked By Its Own Employee, a case study
Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2016

The Expedia employee, John Ly, is accused of hacking into executives computers to access corporate confidential information. Its no secret, cyber criminals are constantly looking towards greener past ...

Infected firmware spotted in well-known low-cost Android devices
Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2016

Experts from Doctor Web spotted new Trojans into the firmware of several dozens of low-cost Android smartphones and tablets. Again problems with low-cost Android smartphones and tablets, once again e ...

Adobe patches multiple flaws including a Flash Zero-Day exploited in the wild
Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2016

Adobe issued security patches that address multiple flaws in 9 products, including fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities that has been exploited in the wild. Adobe has issued security updates to fix vul ...

Hacking McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux, upgrade it asap
Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2016

Intel Security McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux is affected by ten vulnerabilities that can be chained for remote code execution with root privileges. The security expert Andrew Fasano discover ...

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Hacking
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
Security
Shared Hosting at Risk: LiteSpeed Enterprise Bug Can Grant Root from a Single Tenant

Critical LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw lets one shared hosting account gain root, bypassing CageFS; patch now to 6.3.7 via forced update. cPanel warned that a critical flaw in LiteSpeed Enterprise can ...

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

Two China-linked groups ran identical Chrome/Windows zero-day exploits against NGOs, before Chrome's patch shipped, deploying different backdoors each. Two China-linked threat actors used the same ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Security
Telegram Desktop Flaw Could Turn Old Chat Exports Into Data Theft Traps

A Telegram Desktop flaw let bots inject JavaScript into exported chats, enabling data theft and page manipulation. Old HTML exports remain unsafe. A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop could have tu ...

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

Japan 's Digital Agency disclosed a VPN breach exposing 246,000 government employee records across 23 ministries. Detected June 25, publicly disclosed September 11. Japan 's Digital Agency disclos ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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 ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Uncategorized
China Calls Amodei’s AI Proposal a New Cold War Playbook

China rejects Amodei’s AI slowdown proposal, calling it fearmongering and a US attempt to contain China’s technology sector. The debate over whether the world should slow down the development ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

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

Two critical Check Point VPN flaws score 9.8 and could enable remote code execution. Patch now and restrict VPN access before exploitation begins. The Dutch NCSC warns that two critical vulnerabil ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible?

Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2026
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 114

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter REVSTEALER ramps up Breaking the Seal ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 594 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 September 13, 2026
Hacking
GitLab CVE-2026-85706: One HTTP Request, No Authentication, Full File Read - Exploited Within 24 Hours

CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Cyber Crime
Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence

Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic: AI Misuse Is Entering a New Phase: From Cybercrime to Surveillance, Propaganda and Weapons

AI is becoming an operational force for cybercrime, surveillance, propaganda, fraud and weapons development, lowering the cost and scale of attacks. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more t ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Cyber Crime
Attackers Exploit Critical Cisco FMC Flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware

Three threat groups are exploiting two Cisco FMC flaws to steal credentials, gain root access and deploy Qilin ransomware. Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Hacking
UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw

A critical SonicWall flaw was rapidly weaponized, with a UK Council attack linked to a campaign that exposed credentials and enabled Active Directory theft. On July 17, 2026, the Borough Council o ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco, Google Chromium V8, Fortinet, and Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecu ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
More Capable AI, Not Enough Guardrails

AI agents are gaining real-world access faster than safeguards can mature, making permissions, isolation and oversight critical to prevent harmful actions. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent thre ...

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2026