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Vulnerabilities in LastPass allowed attackers to steal passwords
Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2017

The notorious Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox extensions of the LastPass password manager. The Security expert at Google Pro ...

New Metasploit RFTransceiver extension allows testing IoT sevices
Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2017

Metasploit RFTransceiver extension implements the Hardware Bridge API that will allow organizations to test wireless devices operating outside 802.11 spec. Recently we reported the news of the availa ...

Once again Three mobile customers in UK experienced data breach
Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2017

UK Three mobile customers experienced a new data breach, this time a technical issue caused the exposure of their personal details. It has happened again, customers of the compa ...

Exclusive: Dirty Political Spying Attempt behind the FHAPPI Campaign: all the details in the interview with @unixfreaxjp
Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2017

The role of China (PRC) in the worldwide cyber espionage game of conditioning political life: when reserved information are brandished against the political opponent. In the days of testimony of U.S. ...

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Uncategorized
Azure CLI Targeted in LSHIY Password Spray Campaign Across 64 Orgs

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
Security
CISA Warns BlueHammer Flaw Is Now Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

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
Malware
RustDuck: The Botnet That's Still Small but Engineering Like It Plans to Grow

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
Artificial Intelligence
GuardFall Flaw Hits 10 of 11 Popular Open-Source AI Agents

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
Security
XSS.is, The Forum That Ran the Ransomware Supply Chain Is Down. The Market Isn't

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
Security
U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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
Data Breach
Hackers Steal Data of 4.38 Million Aflac Japan Customers

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
Security
Apple Fixes WebKit Flaws in iOS and macOS, With Help From AI Tools

Apple released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari, fixing WebKit flaws, four of which were found using AI tools like Claude and Codex Apple pushed out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, mac ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2026
Security
Attackers actively exploit the Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2026-46817

Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite, CVE-2026-46817, that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to take over Oracle Payments. A critical vulnerability in Oracle ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2026
Security
WhatsApp Usernames Are Coming. You Can Reserve Yours Right Now

WhatsApp will introduce usernames later this year, letting its 3 billion users connect without sharing phone numbers. WhatsApp has over three billion users, and it's finally letting them talk to e ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
Security
U.S. Targets Russian Cyber Spies With $10M Bounty Over Messaging App Attacks

The U.S. offers up to $10M for information on Russian hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials and journalists. The U.S. government is offering rewards of up to $10 million for ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
Malware
StegoAd: How 119 Fake Browser Extensions Stole Credentials and Ran Ad Fraud for Two Years

Microsoft shut down the StegoAd campaign, which used 119 malicious Edge extensions, hit 2.6M installs, and ran undetected for two years. Microsoft just shut down one of the more technically clever ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
Intelligence
SSU and FBI Uncover Russian Cyber Espionage Operation Against Officials and Military Personnel

Ukraine's SSU and the FBI Just Confirmed Russian Intelligence Has Been Systematically Hacking Messenger Accounts for Years. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), working jointly with the FBI, has ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2026
Data Breach
KDDI Data Breach Impacts up to 14.2 Million Email Accounts at Six ISPs

KDDI Corporation disclosed a breach affecting up to 14.2 million email accounts after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software. KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach that exp ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2026
Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 103

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter More Than 4,000 Legacy Routers Compromis ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2026
Security
Security Affairs newsletter Round 583 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 June 28, 2026
Intelligence
New FBI Alert: Russian Intelligence Uses Signal Recovery Keys to Access Messages

FBI warns Russian spies now target Signal Backup Recovery Keys, enabling access to message history and long-term account takeover. The FBI and CISA updated their March 2026 warning about Russian i ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Hospitality Sector Hit by Phishing Campaign Using Fake Guest Complaint Emails

Microsoft warns of a phishing campaign targeting the hospitality sector with fake guest emails that install TonRAT using resilient persistence. Microsoft Threat Intelligence published a detailed a ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Uncategorized
DirtyClone: Fourth Linux Kernel Flaw in Six Weeks Escalates to Root

DirtyClone: a Linux kernel privilege escalation that silently rewrites executables in memory, leaving no disk trace. Patch now. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough on J ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2026
Intelligence
Chinese APT CL-STA-1062 Expands Attacks on Southeast Asian Critical Infrastructure With Custom Malware

Chinese-speaking APT CL-STA-1062 targeted Southeast Asian government and energy networks open-source tools, and a new TinyRCT backdoor. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers published a detailed ...

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2026