Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Vercel breach happened after an employee used an unvetted AI tool. Attackers exploited it as a trusted link to access systems, steal data, and extort $2M. The Vercel breach of April 2026 did not begin with a classic zero-day exploit, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or a sophisticated nation-state infrastructure implant. Instead, it unfolded when an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Google disrupted NetNut, a major proxy network that routed internet traffic through compromised home devices used by cybercriminals. Google has disrupted NetNut, one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks. The service routed internet traffic through home devices, allowing customers to hide their real location and identity. “Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 domains across 13 sectors and scored each one out of 8 points based on four standard email authentication protocols: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS. The results […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBleed, a large-scale campaign that harvested credentials from over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls worldwide, directly to two active ransomware operations: INC Ransom and Lynx. The link isn’t circumstantial. An operator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
Alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to the U.S. over hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Peter Stokes, 19, an alleged Scattered Spider member known online as “Bouquet,” has been extradited from Finland to the U.S. to face hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Prosecutors say he took part in multiple cyberattacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
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 Azure CLI environments since June 12, 2026. A password spray attack is when attackers try a small number of common passwords across many accounts instead of many passwords […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
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-concept noise to real ransomware attacks in the wild, the US CISA confirms. BlueHammer allows attackers to escalate privileges locally in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, along with two other zero-days dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
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 have been tracking a new malware family, called RustDuck, that hijacks routers, cameras, Android set-top boxes, and exposed servers, then uses them to flood targets with junk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2026
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-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential Russian-language cybercrime forum of the past decade. Europol, which coordinated the operation under the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2026
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 of 4.38 million customers and agents after gaining access to its systems between June 15 and June 25. Attackers stole data from the company policyholder […]
