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Sefnit botnet-Microsoft has silently uprooted Tor Browser from more than 2 Million PC
Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2014

Microsoft has uprooted Tor Browser from more than 2 Million Systems to eradicate Sefnit botnet. It has done it silently without user agreement. It was August 2013 when security experts noted a spike ...

Weak passwords, in 2013 it is still a frequent error
Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2014

SplashData has issued its Annual “25 Worst Passwords of the Year” enumerating the list of the most common password chosen by users. It was October 2012 when for the first time I've seen a report ...

SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report on threat landscape evolution
Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2014

Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report to provide an overview of the overall threat landscape. Recently Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat I ...

South Korea, 20 Million credit card data has been leaked
Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2014

Financial Supervisory Service confirmed that Stolen credit card data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked. While US are facing with a series of clamorous d ...

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Hacking
U.S. CISA adds an MLflow flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds an MLflow vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026
Intelligence
US Indicts 17 Iranians Over Years-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign

The US charged 17 Iranians over a years-long hacking campaign that stole 31TB from universities, companies and government agencies worldwide. Eight years after the original indictment first went p ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026
Hacking
StopAndProtect Turns 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Into a Criminal Network

StopAndProtect turned nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress sites into a criminal network for malware delivery, data theft, surveillance and ransomware. Check Point Research uncovered a cybercrime operati ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026
Internet of Things
Inside Operation CameraSwarm: How One Actor Took Over 14,000 Dahua Cameras

An exposed operator directory reveals how one actor compromised 14,000+ Dahua cameras across Ukraine and Russia, no password needed for most. A researcher discovered an exposed directory containin ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026
Malware
Microsoft Tracks MacSync Stealer by Its Behavior, Not Its Domains

Microsoft tracked over 30 MacSync Stealer domains by focusing on behavioral patterns, revealing a campaign targeting passwords, keys, wallets and other data. Domain blocking is a losing game when ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026
Cyber Crime
50,000 Stripe Secrets Leaked in Public Code

Over 50,000 exposed Stripe API keys show how leaked secrets can enable fraud, data access and account abuse within hours. Ransomnews researchers have documented a large-scale leak of Stripe mercha ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds Apple macOS, Microsoft SharePoint, Broadcom VMware vCenter, and Microsoft IKE flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple macOS, Microsoft SharePoint, Broadcom VMware vCenter, and Microsoft IKE flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026
Data Breach
Hackers Expose Data of 1.2 Million Heights Finance Customers

A Heights Finance breach exposed personal and financial data of over 1.2 million people after hackers compromised a third-party cloud platform. Heights Finance is a U.S. consumer finance company t ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Project noRecognition: Teaching AI to Fool Surveillance Cameras

Researchers tested 31 million patterns to disrupt surveillance AI, with promising results but significant gaps between simulation and real-world use. The Kansas City-based cybersecurity researcher ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds a Ray-Project Ray flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Ray-Project Ray vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2026
Malware
New Mirai-Based Evooo1Bot Botnet Targets Linux Devices

Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-A ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2026
Data Breach
SafePal Says 39,798 Customers Hit by Data Breach

SafePal says a breach exposed personal data of 39,798 customers, but not wallet credentials, private keys, seed phrases, or payment information. SafePal disclosed a data breach affecting about 39, ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026
Hacking
LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack - Technology, Banking and Healthcare the Most Affected

The SANDCLOCK LiteLLM supply-chain attack exposed credentials across 2,038 repositories, affecting technology, finance, healthcare, retail and more. Resecurity (USA) estimated the most affected se ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Invisible AI Prompts Trigger Court Sanctions

A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly hid AI p ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026
Cyber Crime
McDonald’s Employee Data Appears in Leak, Seller Claims 1.7M Records Stolen

A seller claims 1.7M McDonald’s employee records were stolen from Azure. An 8,000-row sample appears genuine, but its age and full size remain unconfirmed. A seller on a data-trading forum poste ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026
Malware
Akira Ransomware Uses Safe Mode to Bypass EDR

Akira attackers used Safe Mode to disable EDR before deploying ransomware, but memory issues caused the encryptor to fail. An Akira ransomware affiliate broke into a company through an MFA-less So ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026
Hacking
DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages

Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2026
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 110

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Kimsuky Integrates AI into Attack Operat ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2026
APT
Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit

Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect. HoneyMyte, also known as Mustang Panda, has pu ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2026
Cyber Crime
Sophisticated Cyberattack Exposes Data of 678,000 French Taxpayers

France's tax agency says hackers stole data on 678,000 taxpayers, including income and tax details, in a sophisticated cyberattack. A threat actor claimed to have breached France’s tax agency in ...

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2026