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Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2025
A hacker tied to Yemen Cyber Army gets 20 months in prison

UK hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, tied to Yemen Cyber Army, gets 20 months in prison for website defacements and stolen data possession. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky (26), a man from South Yorkshire, linked to the Yemen Cyber Army, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for hacking and defacing websites in hacktivist campaigns. The UK’s National Crime […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2025
Exploit weaponizes SAP NetWeaver bugs for full system compromise

Exploit chaining CVE-2025-31324 & CVE-2025-42999 in SAP NetWeaver enables auth bypass and RCE, risking compromise and data theft. A new exploit chaining two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-31324 and CVE-2025-42999, in SAP NetWeaver exposes organizations to the risk of system compromise and data theft. CVE-2025-31324 (CVSS score: 10.0) is a missing authorization check in NetWeaver’s Visual Composer […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2025
Noodlophile Stealer evolution

Noodlophile malware spreads via copyright phishing, targeting firms in the U.S., Europe, Baltics & APAC with tailored spear-phishing lures. The Noodlophile malware campaign is expanding globally, using spear-phishing emails disguised as copyright notices. Threat actors tailor lures with details like Facebook Page IDs and company ownership data. Active for over a year, it now targets […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2025
Allianz Life security breach impacted 1.1 million customers

Allianz Life breach exposed data of most of its 1.4M customers; HIBP lists 1.1M impacted, though the insurer hasn’t confirmed exact figures. In July, Allianz Life disclosed a breach where hackers stole data from a cloud database, affecting most of its 1.4M customers and staff. Now, the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2025
Analyzing evolution of the PipeMagic malware

Hackers exploited Windows flaw CVE-2025-29824 to deploy PipeMagic malware in RansomExx attacks, Kaspersky revealed. A joint report from Kaspersky and BI.ZONE analyzed the evolution of PipeMagic malware from its first detection in 2022 to new infections observed in 2025. The researchers identified key changes in its operators’ tactics. BI.ZONE experts focused on a technical analysis of the CVE-2025-29824 vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Trend Micro Apex One flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Trend Micro Apex One flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54948, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Early this month, Trend Micro released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-54948 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2025
AI for Cybersecurity: Building Trust in Your Workflows

In cybersecurity, speed matters, but trust is crucial. AI must ensure both rapid response and reliable decisions to avoid errors and disruption. In cybersecurity, speed matters. But speed without trust can be just as dangerous – if not more so – as no action at all. A hasty, inaccurate decision can disrupt critical systems, cause […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2025
Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach

Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach after attackers accessed a third-party CRM platform via social engineering. Workday is a cloud-based software company that specializes in enterprise applications for human capital management (HCM), financial management, and planning.  The company provides services to over 11,000 organizations, including over 60% of Fortune 500 firms. The HR […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2025
DoJ seizes $2.8M linked to Zeppelin Ransomware

DoJ seized $2.8M in crypto from Ianis Antropenko, indicted in Texas and tied to the defunct Zeppelin ransomware. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko. Antropenko was allegedly involved in now defunct Zeppelin ransomware operation (2019 – 2022), he also laundered proceeds via ChipMixer and structured […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2025
Xerox fixed path traversal and XXE bugs in FreeFlow Core

Xerox patched two serious flaws in FreeFlow Core, path traversal and XXE injection, that allowed unauthenticated remote code execution. Xerox addressed two serious flaws, respectively tracked as CVE-2025-8355 and CVE-2025-8356, in FreeFlow Core. The vulnerabilities are a path traversal (CVE-2025-8355) and XXE injection (CVE-2025-8356), which allowed an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution. FreeFlow […]