Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2025
California Cryobank, the largest US sperm bank, suffered a data breach exposing customer information. California Cryobank (CCB) is the largest sperm bank in the U.S., providing frozen donor sperm and reproductive services, including egg and embryo storage. It operates in all 50 states and over 30 countries worldwide, helping individuals and couples with fertility treatments. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2025
The Rules File Backdoor attack targets AI code editors like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, making them inject malicious code via a supply chain vulnerability. Pillar Security researchers uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector called ‘Rules File Backdoor.’ Threat actors could use the technique to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting malicious code. The attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy and GitHub Action flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: In February, Fortinet warned that threat actors were exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24472 (CVSS score of 8.1), in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2025
Threat actors exploit a server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-27564, in ChatGPT, to target US financial and government organizations. Cybersecurity firm Veriti reports that threat actors are exploiting a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27564 (CVSS score of 6.5), in ChatGPT to target financial and government organizations in the US. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2025
Microsoft discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT), dubbed StilachiRAT, that uses sophisticated techniques to avoid detection. In November 2024, Microsoft researchers discovered StilachiRAT, a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT) designed for stealth, persistence, and data theft. Analysis of its WWStartupCtrl64.dll module revealed that the malware supports sophisticated functionalities to steal credentials from browsers, digital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2025
Threat actors began exploiting a recently disclosed Apache Tomcat vulnerability immediately after the release of a PoC exploit code. A newly disclosed Apache Tomcat vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24813, is being actively exploited just 30 hours after a public PoC was released. The issue is a path equivalence flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2025
Threat actors exploit Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to bypass spam filters and detection engines, and track users’ actions and preferences. Cisco Talos observed threat actors abusing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to evade detection and track user behavior, raising security and privacy concerns, including potential fingerprinting. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2025
A researcher released a free decryptor for Linux Akira ransomware, using GPU power to recover keys through brute force. Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho created a free decryptor for Linux Akira ransomware, using GPUs to brute force the decryption keys. Initially estimating a week, the project took three weeks and cost $1,200 in GPU resources due […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2025
Denmark ‘s cybersecurity agency warns of increased state-sponsored campaigns targeting the European telecom companies Denmark raised the cyber espionage threat level for its telecom sector from medium to high due to rising threats across Europe. The Danish Social Security Agency published a new threat assessment for the cyber threat to the telecommunications sector that highlights […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2025
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool Ragnar Loader Desert Dexter. Attacks on Middle Eastern countries Ballista – New IoT Botnet Targeting Thousands of TP-Link Archer Routers Microsoft patches […]
