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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange
Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2020

CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. CISA published a security advisory warni ...

Thousands of Magento stores hacked in a few days in largest-ever skimming campaign
Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2020

Thousands of Magento online stores have been hacked over the past few days as part of the largest ever skimming campaign. Security experts from cybersecurity firm Sansec reported that nearly 2,000 ...

Staples discloses data breach exposing customer order data
Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2020

Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers' order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified i ...

Zerologon attack lets hackers to completely compromise a Windows domain
Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2020

Zerologon attack allows threat actors to take over enterprise networks by exploiting the CVE-2020-1472 patched in the August 2020 Patch Tuesday. Administrators of enterprise Windows Servers have ...

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Malware
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 91

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Infiniti Stealer: a new macOS infostealer using ClickFix and P ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2026
Hacking
Image or Malware? Read until the end and answer in comments :)

A malicious email delivered a .cmd malware that escalates privileges, bypasses antivirus, downloads payloads, sets persistence, and self-deletes. I received this email from a friend to make an ana ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2026
Breaking News
Security Affairs newsletter Round 571 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 April 05, 2026
Cyber Crime
Qilin ransomware group claims the hack of German political party Die Linke

Qilin ransomware claims it stole data from Germany’s Die Linke and threatens to leak it; the party confirmed the incident, but not a breach. The Qilin ransomware group claims it stole data from ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in TrueConf Client to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in TrueConf Client to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Ag ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2026
Security
European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says

CERT-EU says a European Commission cloud hack exposed data from 30 EU entities and links the breach to the TeamPCP group. CERT-EU attributed a European Commission cloud breach to the TeamPCP threa ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2026
Hacking
North Korea–linked hackers drain $285M from Drift in sophisticated attack

Drift lost $285M in a sophisticated attack, likely by North Korea, who used nonce-based tricks to gain control and quickly drain funds Drift suffered a $285 million cryptocurrency heist in a highl ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2026
Breaking News
CrystalX RAT: new MaaS malware combines spyware, stealer, and remote access

CrystalX RAT, a new sophisticated MaaS malware, combines spyware, data theft, and remote access, allowing attackers to monitor victims. In March 2026, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a Telegram-ba ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2026
Data Breach
Pro-Iran Handala group breached Israeli defence contractor PSK Wind Technologies

Iran-linked hackers claim to have breached Israeli air defence contractor PSK Wind, which develops command and control systems. Pro-Iran Handala group announced on April 2 that it breached PSK Win ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2026
Security
Cisco fixed critical and high-severity flaws

Cisco fixed critical flaws that could allow attackers to bypass authentication, run code, and gain access to sensitive data. Cisco released patches for two critical and six high-severity vulnerabi ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2026
Hacking
Threat actor UAC-0255 impersonate CERT-UA to spread AGEWHEEZE malware via phishing

Threat actors impersonated CERT-UA to send phishing emails with AGEWHEEZE malware, tricking victims into installing a fake “security tool.” A threat actor, tracked as UAC-0255, impersonated CE ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2026
Malware
Italian spyware vendor creates Fake WhatsApp app, targeting 200 users

WhatsApp blocked a fake app by Italian firm SIO/Asigint that targeted 200 users with spyware, urging them to reinstall the official app. WhatsApp has recently uncovered a malicious fake version of ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2026
Hacking
Google fixes fourth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026

Google fixed a new Chrome zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-5281, in the WebGPU Dawn component that is already exploited in the wild. Google released Chrome updates fixing 21 vulnerabilities, includin ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2026
Security
Google links Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korea-linked APT UNC1069

Google links the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean threat group UNC1069, targeting financial gain. Google has attributed the recent Axios npm supply chain compromise to a North Korean ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2026
Security
SentinelOne autonomous detection blocks trojaned LiteLLM triggered by Claude Code

SentinelOne AI stopped a LiteLLM supply chain attack in seconds, blocking malicious code automatically without human intervention. SentinelOne’s AI-based security detected and blocked a supply c ...

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2026
Data Breach
Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code

Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code source via npm, causing the code to quickly spread online after discovery. Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code of its Claude Code tool after a ...

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2026
Security
Attackers hijack Axios npm account to spread RAT malware

Threat actors hijacked the npm account of Axios to distribute RAT malware via malicious package updates. Threat actors compromised the npm account of Axios, a widely used library with over 100M we ...

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2026
Data Breach
Nearly half a Million mobile customers of Lloyds Banking Group affected by security incident

Lloyds Banking Group data incident exposed transactions of ~450,000 mobile banking users due to a faulty update. A faulty software update at Lloyds Banking Group exposed transaction details of nea ...

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2026
Hacking
Dutch Ministry of Finance takes treasury systems offline amid cyber incident investigation

The Dutch Ministry of Finance took treasury banking portal offline after a cyberattack; core tax systems were not affected. The Dutch Ministry of Finance took parts of its infrastructure offline, ...

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2026
Security
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2026