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The "company" cybercrime seen by Fortinet
Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2012

Fortinet company, the worldwide provider of network security appliances and a market leader in unified threat management (UTM), has recently published the report “Fortinet 2013 Cybercrime Report” ...

Android malware for SMS spam botnet
Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2012

Everywhere is possible to read rivers of words on the impressive diffusion of social networks and mobile devices, both technologies used in the last months as privileged channels of attacks due their ...

Perfect Citizen, US vulnerability assessment program on critical infrastructures
Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2012

CNET web site has published a news on a secret National Security Agency program named Perfect Citizen that is targeting on large-scale the control systems inside utilities, including power grid and ga ...

Have you been hacked? ... you must disclose it!
Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2012

During 2009 it was revealed that one of the primary defense contractor BAE Systems was hacked causing the exposure of sensible information on F-35 fighter jet. The reserved information were obtained b ...

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Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 67

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Astaroth: Banking Trojan Abusing GitHub ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2025
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 546 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 October 19, 2025
Security
Winos 4.0 hackers expand to Japan and Malaysia with new malware

Winos 4.0 hackers expand from China, Taiwan to Japan, Malaysia using fake Finance Ministry PDFs to spread HoldingHands RAT malware. Threat actors behind Winos 4.0 (ValleyRAT) have expanded their a ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2025
Breaking News
From Airport chaos to cyber intrigue: Everest Gang takes credit for Collins Aerospace breach

Everest claims Collins Aerospace hack hitting EU airports, but its leak site vanishes soon after, sparking takedown speculation. Do you remember the Collins Aerospace supply chain attack that disr ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2025
Security
SIMCARTEL operation: Europol takes down SIM-Box ring linked to 3,200 scams

Europol’s SIMCARTEL operation shut down a SIM-box network behind 3,200 frauds and €4.5M losses, using 40,000 SIMs for scams and extortion. Europol’s “SIMCARTEL” operation dismantled an i ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2025
Security
A critical WatchGuard Fireware flaw could allow unauthenticated code execution

A critical WatchGuard Fireware vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9242, could allow unauthenticated code execution. Researchers revealed details of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-92 ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Data Breach
Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts

Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Cyber Crime
Microsoft revokes 200+ certificates abused by Vanilla Tempest in fake Teams campaign

Microsoft revoked 200+ certificates used by Vanilla Tempest to sign fake Teams installers spreading Oyster backdoor and Rhysida ransomware. Microsoft revoked over 200 certificates used by the cybe ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Security
PowerSchool hacker got four years in prison

Matthew D. Lane, a Massachusetts student, got four years in prison for hacking and extorting $3M from PowerSchool and another company. A Massachusetts student, Matthew D. Lane, was sentenced to fo ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Data Breach
Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach

Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took two months to assess the stolen information and affected individuals. Sotheby’s reported a data breach that ex ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2025
Malware
Operation Zero Disco: Threat actors targets Cisco SNMP flaw to drop Linux rootkits

Hackers exploit Cisco SNMP flaw CVE-2025-20352 in “Zero Disco” attacks to deploy Linux rootkits on outdated systems, researchers report. Trend Micro researchers disclosed details of a new camp ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
APT
China-linked APT Jewelbug targets Russian IT provider in rare cross-nation cyberattack

China-linked APT Jewelbug targeted a Russian IT provider for five months in 2025, showing Russia remains exposed to Chinese cyber espionage. China-linked threat actor Jewelbug (aka CL-STA-0049, Ea ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
U.S. CISA adds SKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds OracSKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Data Breach
Spanish fashion retailer MANGO disclosed a data breach

Spanish fashion retailer MANGO disclosed a data breach after a marketing vendor compromise exposed customer personal information. Mango is a global fashion brand founded in Barcelona in 1984, it h ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2025
Security
Qilin Ransomware announced new victims

Resecurity’s new report details how the Qilin RaaS group relies on global bulletproof hosting networks to support its extortion operations. The following new report by Resecurity will explore th ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Security
A sophisticated nation-state actor breached F5 systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed flaw

F5 disclosed that a sophisticated nation-state actor breached its systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed product vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity firm F5 disclosed that a highl ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Hacking
200,000 Linux systems from Framework are shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass

About 200K Linux systems from Framework shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass, allowing bootkit installation and persistence. Firmware security company Eclypsium war ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Security
SAP fixed maximum-severity bug in NetWeaver

SAP addressed 13 new flaws, including a maximum severity vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver, which could lead to arbitrary command execution. SAP addressed 13 new vulnerabilities, including a maximu ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025
Hacking
Unencrypted satellites expose global communications

Researchers found nearly half of geostationary satellites leak unencrypted data, exposing consumer, corporate, and military communications. A group of researchers from UC San Diego and the Univers ...

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2025