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Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2025

Shields up US retailers. Scattered Spider threat actors can target them

Google warns that the cybercrime group Scattered Spider behind UK retailer attacks is now targeting U.S. companies, shifting their focus across the Atlantic. The financially motivated group UNC3944 (also known as Scattered Spider, 0ktapus) is known for social engineering and extortion. The cybercrime group is suspected of hacking into hundreds of organizations over the past two years, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2025

U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions for these flaws: According to Binding Operational […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2025

Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 Day Two: researcher earned 150K hacking VMware ESXi

On day two of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, participants earned $435,000 for demonstrating zero-day in SharePoint, ESXi, VirtualBox, RHEL, and Firefox. On day two of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, bug hunters earned a total of $435,000, which brings the contest total to $695,000, after $260,000 was awarded during the first day of the competition. The participants demonstrated […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2025

New botnet HTTPBot targets gaming and tech industries with surgical attacks

New botnet HTTPBot is targeting China’s gaming, tech, and education sectors, cybersecurity researchers warn. NSFOCUS cybersecurity discovered a new botnet called HTTPBot that has been used to target the gaming industry, technology firms, and educational institutions in China. HTTPBot is a Go-based botnet first detected in August 2024, however, its activity surged by April 2025. The botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2025

Meta plans to train AI on EU user data from May 27 without consent

Meta plans to train AI on EU user data from May 27 without consent; privacy group noyb threatens lawsuit over lack of explicit opt-in. Meta plans to use EU user data for AI training starting May 27 without explicit consent. Austrian privacy group noyb threatens a class action lawsuit if the social network giant does […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2025

Nova Scotia Power discloses data breach after March security incident

Nova Scotia Power confirmed a data breach involving the theft of sensitive customer data after the April cybersecurity incident. Nova Scotia Power Inc. is a vertically integrated electric utility serving the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Headquartered in Halifax, it is a subsidiary of Emera Inc. The company provides electricity to over 500,000 residential, commercial, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2025

Coinbase disclosed a data breach after an extortion attempt

Coinbase confirmed rogue contractors stole customer data and demanded a $20M ransom in a breach reported to the SEC. Coinbase said rogue contractors stole data on under 1% of users and demanded $20M; the data breach was disclosed in an SEC filing. On May 11, 2025, the company received a ransom demand from a threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2025

U.S. CISA adds a Fortinet flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Fortinet vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Fortinet Multiple Products Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32756, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Fortinet released security updates to address a critical remote code execution zero-day, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2025

Kosovo authorities extradited admin of the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc

Kosovar citizen extradited to the US for running the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc appeared in federal court facing related charges. Kosovo citizen Liridon Masurica (33) of Gjilan, was extradited to the US for running the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc and appeared in federal court facing related charges. The online criminal marketplace BlackDB.cc has been active sunce 2018, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2025

U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions for these flaws: Microsoft addressed these flaws with the release of the Patch Tuesday Security updates […]