Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2014
CERT warns that DNS Cache Poisoning attacks could be used also to hijack email to a rogue server and not only to divert the Internet traffic. DNS attacks are very popular in hacking community, they c ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2014
A Brazilian newspaper's website has been hacked to serve a malware that tries to change the victim’s router DNS settings brute forcing the admin panel. A Brazilian political newspaper’s website h ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2014
FireEye discovered two distinct groups of Chinese hackers operating cyber espionage campaigns on a large-scale in parallel. Security experts at FireEye have discovered two hacking campaigns conduct ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2014
Security experts at TrendMicro have uncovered a new malicious campaign based on a Chrome extension deployed on the official Chrome Store. A few months ago I wrote an article on the presence of a mali ...
April 23, 2026
August 26, 2026
CISA red teams fully compromised two critical infrastructure orgs. One SOC isolated hosts in minutes; the other never detected the breach. CISA published an advisory (AA26-237A) documenting two si ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
FBI seizes QScan and QTRouter, China-linked platforms used to hide intrusions and target U.S. critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have seized two platforms, QScan a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
88 ID-verification breaches exposed billions of records, highlighting the growing risks of collecting sensitive identity and biometric data. A new report from Mysterium VPN compiles 88 documented ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
WhatsApp says 1 billion users now use passkeys, while stronger two-step verification and caller context add new layers of account protection. WhatsApp has reached a significant security milestone: ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
INTERPOL’s Operation Jackal IV made 58 arrests and exposed global networks laundering money from scams, fraud and sextortion. INTERPOL announced that Operation Jackal IV, running from November 2 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2026
Norway ’s shared government infrastructure suffered a third DDoS attack, disrupting digital services but showing no signs of data compromise. Norway 's shared digital government infrastructure h ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
Two CVSS 9.8 miniOrange SAML WordPress plugin auth bypasses were exploited while paid editions never appeared in any vulnerability database. Manual patch required. Two critical authentication bypa ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Oracle flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adde ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
WeedHack Minecraft Malware Survives C2 Takedown: Fake Client Sites Still Active, SEO Poisoning Puts Malicious Downloads at the Top of Google McAfee Labs published a follow-up report on the WeedHac ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
A fake 113GB GTA VI build is packed with malware, using massive empty files to hide a tiny malicious payload. GTA VI hype has reached the point where people are volunteering to infect their own co ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2026
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle U.S. claims that it violated child privacy laws by collecting data from users under 13. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok will pay $400 mi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2026
iAuthFlow v2 phishing toolkit uses a phished Google session to enroll an attacker-controlled passkey that survives password resets. Abnormal Security researchers have published an analysis of iAut ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2026
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Akira Hits Safe Mode: Ransomware Rebooti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2026
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days in the first confirmed attack of its kind, concurrent with water infrastructure attacks across 12 US states. Iran-linked hackers shut d ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2026
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
August 23, 2026
New Cryptographic Context Injection technique bypasses AI guardrails via AES-encrypted payloads, leaking full Grok chat histories zero-click Adversa AI researcher Rony Utevsky devised a new attack ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2026
Malware is abusing car infotainment updates to install proxy software, turning Android head units into nodes for the BADBOX network. Kaspersky researchers found something in June 2026 that made th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2026
UMass Amherst researchers showed expired Visa contactless cards can make real purchases by exploiting an unsigned expiry field in Visa's EMV kernel. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2026
