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HSBC Turkey hacked, 2.7 million credit cards exposed
Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2014

The International bank Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) announced that its systems suffered a major data breach. Last week the International bank Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpo ...

OnionDuke: APT Attacks exploited the Tor Network
Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2014

Experts at F-Secure discovered a link between the crew operating a rogue Tor node used to spread OnionDuke malware and MiniDuke APT. A few weeks ago the security research Josh Pitts of Leviathan Secu ...

A fresh C93 phishing Scam targeting Microsoft’s Windows Outlook Users
Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2014

Scammers have unleashed a C93 virus scare, targeted at Microsoft’s Windows outlook users in a wide phishing campaign aimed at stealing users’ login credentials. The scam is similar to earlier phis ...

A new BASHLITE variant infects devices running BusyBox
Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2014

A new variant of the BASHLITE malware exploiting the ShellShock vulnerability was used by cyber criminals to infect devices that use BusyBox software. A new strain of the BASHLITE malware was detecte ...

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Data Breach
KDDI Data Breach Impacts up to 14.2 Million Email Accounts at Six ISPs

KDDI Corporation disclosed a breach affecting up to 14.2 million email accounts after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software. KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach that exp ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2026
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 103

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter More Than 4,000 Legacy Routers Compromis ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 583 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 June 28, 2026
Intelligence
New FBI Alert: Russian Intelligence Uses Signal Recovery Keys to Access Messages

FBI warns Russian spies now target Signal Backup Recovery Keys, enabling access to message history and long-term account takeover. The FBI and CISA updated their March 2026 warning about Russian i ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Hospitality Sector Hit by Phishing Campaign Using Fake Guest Complaint Emails

Microsoft warns of a phishing campaign targeting the hospitality sector with fake guest emails that install TonRAT using resilient persistence. Microsoft Threat Intelligence published a detailed a ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Uncategorized
DirtyClone: Fourth Linux Kernel Flaw in Six Weeks Escalates to Root

DirtyClone: a Linux kernel privilege escalation that silently rewrites executables in memory, leaving no disk trace. Patch now. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough on J ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Intelligence
Chinese APT CL-STA-1062 Expands Attacks on Southeast Asian Critical Infrastructure With Custom Malware

Chinese-speaking APT CL-STA-1062 targeted Southeast Asian government and energy networks open-source tools, and a new TinyRCT backdoor. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers published a detailed ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Security
Activist Phone Hacked With Cellebrite After Russia Contract Cancellation

Russian authorities used Cellebrite tools to unlock an activist’s iPhone and analyze private data despite canceled support, raising abuse concerns. On May 31, 2021, Russian security services pul ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructur ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Security
Third-Party Breach at Polymarket Leads to $2.94M Crypto Theft

Polymarket confirmed hackers stole funds from some users after attackers injected malicious code through a compromised third-party vendor. Polymarket confirmed that a security breach at a third-pa ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Malware
macOS.Gaslight: North Korea-Linked Malware That Tries to Gaslight the Analyst

macOS.Gaslight: DPRK Rust implant for Mac with a prompt injection payload designed to fool AI-based malware analysts. SentinelLabs researchers spotted a Rust-based macOS implant, dubbed macOS.Gasl ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026
Data Breach
Tata Electronics Confirms Data Breach After 630GB Leak Claim Targets Apple and Tesla

Tata Electronics confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to steal 630GB of data, including alleged Apple supplier and Tesla documents. Tata Electronics, a major supplier to Apple and Tesla, ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Security
Curl Fixes a 25-Year-Old Bug in Its Largest CVE Release Yet

Curl fixed 18 vulnerabilities, including a 25-year-old bug, with issues spanning auth bypass, memory safety, and host validation in libcurl. Curl maintainers addressed eighteen vulnerabilities wit ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Inside Mistic, the New Stealth Backdoor in Ransomware Intrusions

Mistic is a stealthy backdoor used by KongTuke-linked actors to keep long-term access in ransomware-targeted networks. Mistic is the kind of backdoor that tells you the operator wants time, not no ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Hacking
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited Months Before Disclosure

Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat act ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Nathan Austad Pleads Guilty in DraftKings Hacking Scheme, Gets 18 Months

Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 D ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2026
Cyber Crime
Europol Disrupts StealC and Amadey Malware Infrastructure in Operation Endgame

Operation Endgame disrupted malware services like StealC and Amadey that enable ransomware, fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure. Between June 15 and 19, 2026, Europol coordinated a two-w ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Why Frontier AI makes prioritization the most important part of your CTEM program

Frontier AI could drive a 10x surge in vulnerabilities. CTEM helps organizations continuously identify, prioritize, and reduce real cyber risk. Your vulnerability management program was not design ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Hacking
Cisco Unified CM Flaw CVE-2026-20230 Actively Exploited in the Wild

Attackers exploit Cisco Unified CM flaw (CVE-2026-20230) allowing unauth HTTP requests to trigger SSRF, write files, and gain root access Cisco Unified Communications Manager has a serious vulnera ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ubiquiti UniFi OS and Lantronix EDS5000 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026