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Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
How threat actors breached a U.S. federal civilian agency by exploiting a GeoServer flaw

US CISA revealed that threat actors exploited an unpatched vulnerability in GeoServer to breach a U.S. federal civilian agency’s network. Threat actors breached a U.S. federal agency via unpatched GeoServer flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score of 9.8), which is a critical remote code execution (RCE) issue. In mid-July 2024, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025
Cloudflare mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack at 22.2 Tbps

Cloudflare blocked a new record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 billion packets per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps). Cloudflare has not shared other technical details about the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-10585, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. In mid-September, Google released security updates to address four vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser, including CVE-2025-10585, which […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
US Secret Service dismantled covert communications network near the U.N. in New York

Secret Service seizes a covert communications network near U.N. composed of sophisticated equipment, including 100K SIMs and 300 servers The U.S. Secret Service uncovered a covert communications network near the U.N. in New York, seizing 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers. The operation, capable of sending 30 million texts per minute, could disable cellular towers […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
A suspected Scattered Spider member suspect detained for casino network attacks

A suspected Scattered Spider member linked to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos was arrested on September 17. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested on September 17 a suspected Scattered Spider member linked to attacks on Las Vegas casinos for computer intrusion, extortion, and identity theft. Between August and October 2023, multiple Las Vegas […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2025
$150K awarded for L1TF Reloaded exploit that bypasses cloud mitigations

Researchers earned $150K for “L1TF Reloaded,” combining L1TF and half-Spectre to leak VM memory from public clouds despite mitigations. Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam earned $150K for exploiting L1TF Reloaded, a flaw combining L1TF (Foreshadow) and half-Spectre. The attack bypasses prior mitigations, showing that transient CPU vulnerabilities remain practical and can leak memory from VMs […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
Stellantis probes data breach linked to third-party provider

Stellantis is investigating a data breach after unauthorized access to a third-party provider’s platform potentially exposed customer data. Car maker giant Stellantis announced it is investigating a data breach following unauthorized access to a third-party provider’s platform that supports North American customer service operations. The company did not name the impacted third-party provider. Stellantis N.V. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
FBI alerts public to spoofed IC3 site used in fraud schemes

The FBI warns that criminals are spoofing the IC3 site to steal personal data and commit fraud targeting cybercrime reporters. The FBI warned that attackers are spoofing the official Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website to steal personal data and commit financial fraud, targeting users who report cybercrimes. The fake websites mimic the real IC3 domain […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
EU agency ENISA says ransomware attack behind airport disruptions

The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA confirmed that airport check-in disruptions were caused by a cyberattack, and law enforcement is investigating. A cyber attack on Collins Aerospace disrupted check-in and boarding systems at major European airports, heavily impacting Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin. The outage caused numerous flight delays and cancellations, forcing manual operations. Collins Aerospace is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2025
Researchers expose MalTerminal, an LLM-enabled malware pioneer

SentinelOne uncovered MalTerminal, the earliest known malware with built-in LLM capabilities, and presented it at LABScon 2025. SentinelLABS researchers discovered MalTerminal, the earliest known LLM-enabled malware, which generates malicious logic at runtime, making the detection more complex. Researchers identified it via API key patterns and prompt structures, uncovering new samples and other offensive LLM uses, […]