Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2019
Most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on VirusTotal have been issued by the Certificate Authority (CA) Comodo CA. Most of the digital certificates used to sign malwar ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2019
Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by "bad actors" and that five percent of active accounts are fake. The news is disconcerting, but sincerel ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2019
Several security experts have developed PoC exploits for wormable Windows RDS flaw tracked as CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep. Experts have developed several proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for ...
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2019
UK Government has provided to 16 NATO allies evidence of malicious Russia 's cyber activity in their countries over the last 18 months. According to the foreign minister Jeremy Hunt, the UK Gover ...
April 23, 2026
A U.S. government agency paid $1M to Kairos, a group focused on data theft and extortion rather than ransomware, Ransom-ISAC reports. A new case study from Ransom-ISAC reconstructs a complete data ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2026
FBI says TeamPCP poisoned trusted developer tools to steal cloud credentials, spread malware through software updates, and extort victims. On July 2, 2026, the FBI published a FLASH alert identify ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2026
A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Sysdig reports an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack end-to-end, exploiting flaws, stealing creds, moving laterally, and encrypting data without humans. Sysdig's Threat Research Team has docume ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Vercel breach happened after an employee used an unvetted AI tool. Attackers exploited it as a trusted link to access systems, steal data, and extort $2M. The Vercel breach of April 2026 did not b ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Google disrupted NetNut, a major proxy network that routed internet traffic through compromised home devices used by cybercriminals. Google has disrupted NetNut, one of the world's largest residen ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
EU's top court upheld a €4.1B fine against Google, ruling it abused Android's market dominance through restrictive licensing practices. The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its ruli ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Microsoft SharePoint Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar's Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBle ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Adobe fixed multiple critical flaws, including max severity bugs in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic that could lead to remote code execution Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion and ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to the U.S. over hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Peter Stokes, 19, an alleged Scattered Spider member known onl ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2026-46817 is under active attack, with about 950 vulnerable internet-facing instances still exposed. This week, Defused Cyber researchers warned that a critical v ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
81 Million Login Attempts, 78 Compromised Accounts: The LSHIY Password Spray Hitting Azure CLI Huntress researchers have been tracking a massive automated password spray campaign against Microsoft ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
CISA confirms BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is now used in ransomware attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges through Microsoft Defender. BlueHammer, tracked as CVE-2026-33825, has moved from proof-of-con ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
RustDuck is a small, evolving DDoS botnet migrating to Rust. It uses advanced encryption, anti-analysis evasion, and exploits known IoT flaws. Since February 2026, researchers at QiAnXin's XLab ha ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
Researchers found a shell injection flaw in 10 of 11 popular open-source AI agents, allowing attackers to bypass command filters. Adversa AI just published a survey, titled "GuardFall: a universal ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38- ...
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( ...
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2026
Hackers stole data from 4.38 million Aflac Japan customers after accessing its systems for 10 days before the breach was detected. Aflac Japan disclosed that hackers stole the personal information ...
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2026
