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APT
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Russia-linked Sandworm APT implicated in major cyber attack on Poland’s power grid
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11-Year-Old critical telnetd flaw found in GNU InetUtils (CVE-2026-24061)

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Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2026
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Fortinet warns of active FortiCloud SSO bypass affecting updated devices

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Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
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Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
Data Breach
Investigation underway after 72M Under Armour records surface online

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Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2026
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Machine learning–powered Android Trojans bypass script-based Ad Click detection

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Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
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Critical SmarterMail vulnerability under attack, no CVE yet

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Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
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Arctic Wolf detects surge in automated Fortinet FortiGate firewall configuration attacks

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Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity ...

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2026
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Zoom fixed critical Node Multimedia Routers flaw

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Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
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ACME flaw in Cloudflare allowed attackers to reach origin servers

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Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026
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Crooks impersonate LastPass in campaign to harvest master passwords

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Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2026