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CYBERPOL Investigates Indentify theft online
Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2014

CYBERPOL the International Cyber-Security Organization (ICSO)  is looking into the ID theft of personalities on social websites online that offers very little, if any protection of your identity bein ...

Serious WordPress issue exposes users to hijacking even if 2FA is enabled
Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2014

Unencrypted cookies leave WordPress accounts exposed to hijacking on insecure networks, even if the two-factor authentication is enabled. WordPress administrators must be aware that it is quite easy ...

UPDATED - Ex LulzSec Sabu helped feds foil 300+ cyberattacks
Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2014

Prosecutors filed a document which reveals ex LulzSec hacker Sabu helped US authorities stop more that 300 cyber attacks against US targets. The time of sentencing the former LulzSec hacker is arri ...

Critical Infrastructure, hackers targeted public utility SCADA
Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2014

Cyber attacks could pose a potentially huge risk to US critical infrastructure, state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals are increasing their activity. Governments are even more alarmed by the pos ...

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Security
CrowdStrike denies breach after insider sent internal screenshots to hackers

CrowdStrike says an insider shared internal screenshots with hackers but confirms no system breach and no customer data exposure. BleepingComputer first reported that CrowdStrike said an insider s ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Security
SolarWinds addressed three critical flaws in Serv-U

SolarWinds patched three critical vulnerabilities in its Serv-U file transfer solution that could allow remote code execution. SolarWinds addressed three critical vulnerabilities in its Serv-U fil ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Data Breach
Massive data leak hits Italian railway operator Ferrovie dello Stato via Almaviva hack

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) data leaked after a breach at IT provider Almaviva. A hacker claims the theft of 2.3 TB of sensitive data. Data belonging to Italy's national railway operator F ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Hacking
Salesforce alerts users to potential data exposure via Gainsight OAuth apps

Salesforce warns that unusual activity in Gainsight-linked OAuth apps may have enabled unauthorized access to some customers’ Salesforce data. Salesforce warned of unusual activity involving Gai ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2025
Mobile
Researchers devised a new enumeration technique that exposed 3.5B WhatsApp profiles

Researchers disclosed a WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B accounts. Meta has patched it to prevent this mass enumeration. A team of researchers at the University of Vienna found a WhatsApp flaw that ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Breaking News
Sturnus: New Android banking trojan targets WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

The Android trojan Sturnus targets communications from secure messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Sturnus is a new Android banking trojan with full device-takeover abilities. It byp ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Cyber Crime
Coordinated sanctions hit Russian bulletproof hosting providers enabling top ransomware Ops

US, Australia and UK sanctioned 2 Russian bulletproof hosting providers accused of aiding groups like LockBit, BlackSuit and Play. US, Australia and UK sanctioned two Russian bulletproof hosting p ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
APT
Cyber-enabled kinetic targeting: Iran-linked actor uses cyber operations to support physical attacks

Iran-linked actors mapped ship AIS data ahead of a missile strike attempt, highlighting the rise of cyber operations enabling real-world attacks. Iran-linked threat actors mapped ship Automatic Id ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2025
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds a Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Security
7-Zip RCE flaw (CVE-2025-11001) actively exploited in attacks in the wild

A remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11001, in the 7-Zip software is under active exploitation. A new 7-Zip flaw tracked as CVE-2025-11001 (CVSS score of 7.0) is now being a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Cyber Crime
Operation WrtHug hijacks 50,000+ ASUS routers to build a global botnet

Operation WrtHug hijacks tens of thousands of outdated ASUS routers worldwide, mainly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, forming a large botnet. A new campaign called Operation WrtHug has compromise ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Hacking
U.S. CISA adds a new Fortinet FortiWeb flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. CISA has added a second Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability in just a few days to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)&nbs ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Data Breach
Eurofiber confirms November 13 hack, data theft, and extortion attempt

Eurofiber says hackers exploited a flaw on November 13, breached its ticket and customer portals, stole data, and attempted extortion. On November 13, threat actors exploited a vulnerability to br ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Hacking
New FortiWeb zero-day CVE-2025-58034 under attack patched by Fortinet

Fortinet patched a new FortiWeb zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-58034, which attackers are actively exploiting. Fortinet patched a new FortiWeb zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-58034 (CVSS score 6.7), ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2025
Data Breach
Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (OAG) confirms data breach after August attack

The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") confirms a data breach following a ransomware attack by Inc Ransom group. The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") confirmed ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2025
Data Breach
DoorDash data breach exposes personal info after social engineering attack

DoorDash says a social engineering attack led to a data breach exposing names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers of users, Dashers, and merchants. U.S.-based food delivery and logistics company ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2025
Hacking
Google fixed the seventh Chrome zero-day in 2025

Google patched two Chrome flaws, including a V8 type-confusion bug, tracked as including CVE-2025-13223, which was exploited in the wild. Google released Chrome security updates to address two fla ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2025
Cyber Crime
Dutch police takes down bulletproof hosting hub linked to 80+ cybercrime cases

Dutch police seized 250 servers running a bulletproof hosting service tied to cybercriminals and linked to over 80 investigations since 2022. Dutch police Politie, seized 250 servers running an un ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2025
Breaking News
Microsoft mitigated the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, 15.7 Tbps

Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps. On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2025
Security
Jaguar Land Rover confirms major disruption and £196M cost from September cyberattack

Jaguar Land Rover says the September 2025 cyberattack halted production, led to data theft, and cost £196M in the quarter. Jaguar Land Rover reported that a September 2025 cyberattack, claimed by ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2025