Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2017
The hackers that targeted MongoDB installations with ransom attacks now switch on the exposed Elasticsearch clusters with a similar tactic. A few days ago I reported the news of a string of cyber att ...
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2017
A security issue can be used to intercept and read encrypted messages. Is this a WhatsApp backdoor? Which are potential risks? Is the popular messaging service Whatsapp affected by a backdoor? Accord ...
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2017
The popular hacker Kapustkiy hacked a website belonging to the Government of Venezuela in protest against the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The White hat hacker Kapustkiy has hacked the Governmen ...
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2017
According to the release notes the latest version of Wordpress 4.7.1 addresses eight security vulnerabilities and other 62 bugs. Wednesday the latest version of Wordpress 4.7.1 was released by the Wo ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
