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New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie
Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2017

New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie who shared a lot of interesting details about the attack vectors and reverse techniques. Our travel ...

Who is spying on communications in the Washington area? A rogue state is suspected of mass surveillance
Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2017

US authorities uncovered a surveillance activity allegedly powered by a rogue entity that is tracking phones of Government officials and foreign diplomats. Something very strange has happened in the ...

Welcome to Pwn2Own 2017 - Researchers hacked Adobe Reader, Edge, Ubuntu, and Safari
Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2017

Pwn2Own 2017 is started, as usual, it is a great event to see hackers at work. In the first day, experts hacked Edge, Safari, Ubuntu, and Adobe Reader. Pwn2Own 2017 competition held in Vancouver (Can ...

CVE-2017-2636 Linux kernel flaw was spotted after seven years and quickly fixed
Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2017

A flaw recently fixed in the Linux kernel tracked as CVE-2017-2636 might have been exploited to gain privilege escalation or cause a DoS condition. The security expert Alexander Popov from Positiv ...

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Data Breach
OpenAI data may have been exposed after a cyberattack on analytics firm Mixpanel

OpenAI warns some users that a cyberattack on analytics firm Mixpanel may have exposed their data. Mixpanel is a product analytics platform that companies use to understand how people interact wi ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2025
Internet of Things
New ASUS firmware patches critical AiCloud vulnerability

ASUS released new firmware to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass flaw in routers with AiCloud enabled. ASUS has issued new firmware addressing nine securi ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2025
Security
For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish

RomCom malware used the SocGholish fake update loader to deliver Mythic Agent to a U.S. civil engineering firm. In September 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs observed RomCom threat actors delivering the Myt ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2025
Security
Multiple London councils faced a cyberattack

Multiple London councils, including Chelsea and Westminster, faced a cyberattack that may have exposed resident data. Authorities are actively investigating the incident. A cyberattack struck mult ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2025
Cyber Crime
Emergency alerts go dark after cyberattack on OnSolve CodeRED

Cyberattack on OnSolve CodeRED disrupted emergency alert services for U.S. state, local, police, and fire agencies. A cyberattack on the OnSolve CodeRED alert platform disrupted emergency notifica ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2025
Cyber Crime
Dissecting a new malspam chain delivering Purelogs infostealer

The AISI Research Center's Cybersecurity Observatory publishes the report "Dissecting a new malspam chain delivering Purelogs infostealer" - November 25, 2025. Organizational and personal security ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2025
Cyber Crime
FBI: bank impersonators fuel $262M surge in account takeover fraud

Cybercriminals posing as banks drove a major spike in account takeover fraud this year, stealing over $262 million, the FBI warned. The FBI warns of a surge in account takeover fraud, with crimina ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Cyber Crime
Morphisec warns StealC V2 malware spread through weaponized blender files

StealC V2 spread via malicious Blender files on 3D model sites like CGTrader, abusing Blender’s ability to run hidden Python scripts. Cybersecurity firm Morphisec reported that Russian threat a ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Malware
CISA: Spyware and RATs used to target WhatsApp and Signal Users

CISA warns that threat actors are actively using commercial spyware and RATs to target users of mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Signal. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025
Security
Harvard reports vishing breach exposing alumni and donor contact data

Harvard revealed its Alumni Affairs systems suffered a vishing breach, exposing emails, phone numbers, addresses, donation data and biographical info. Harvard revealed that threat actors breached ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Data Breach
Delta Dental of Virginia data breach impacts 145,918 customers

Delta Dental of Virginia suffered a data breach that exposed personal and health data of about 146,000 customers after the hack of an email account. A security breach at the dental care provider D ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Malware
Attackers deliver ShadowPad via newly patched WSUS RCE bug

Attackers exploited a patched WSUS flaw (CVE-2025-59287) to gain access, use PowerCat for a shell, and deploy the ShadowPad malware. AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) researchers reporte ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Security
AI attack agents are accelerators, not autonomous weapons: the Anthropic attack

Why today’s AI attack agents boost human attackers but still fall far from becoming real autonomous weapons. Anthropic recently published a report that sparked a lively debate about what AI agen ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Hacking
Scattered Spider alleged members deny TfL charges

Two UK teens linked to Scattered Spider pleaded not guilty to charges over last year’s TfL cyberattack at a Southwark Crown Court hearing. Two British teens accused of Computer Misuse Act offens ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025
Data Breach
Iberia discloses security incident tied to supplier breach

Iberia warns customers of a supplier-related data breach as a threat actor claims to hold 77GB of stolen airline data. Iberia is warning customers about a data breach after a third-party supplier ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
Breaking News
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 72

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Contagious Interview Actors Now Utilize ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 551 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 November 23, 2025
Security
SonicWall flags SSLVPN flaw allowing firewall crashes

SonicWall warns of a high-severity buffer overflow flaw in SonicOS SSLVPN (CVE-2025-40601) that lets attackers crash Gen7 and Gen8 firewalls. A new high-severity SonicOS SSLVPN flaw, tracked as CV ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2025
APT
BadAudio malware: how APT24 scaled its cyberespionage through supply chain attacks

APT24 used supply chain attacks and varied techniques to deploy the BadAudio malware in a long-running cyberespionage campaign. China-linked group APT24 used supply-chain attacks and multiple tech ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds an Oracle Fusion Middleware flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds an Oracle Fusion Middleware flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit ...

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2025