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Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
CERT-UA warns UAC-0245 targets Ukraine with CABINETRAT backdoor

CERT-UA warns UAC-0245 targets Ukraine with CABINETRAT backdoor via malicious Excel XLL add-ins spotted in Sept 2025. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of cyberattacks by the group UAC-0245 using the CABINETRAT backdoor. The campaign, seen in September 2025, involved malicious Excel XLL add-ins posing as software tools (e.g. “UBD Request.xll”, “recept_ruslana_nekitenko.xll”). […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
Allianz Life data breach impacted 1.5 Million people

Allianz Life breach exposed data of 1.5M people, including names, addresses, birth dates, and Social Security numbers stolen from a cloud CRM. In July, Allianz Life disclosed a breach where hackers stole data from a cloud database, affecting most of its customers and staff. In August, the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned reported 1.1M impacted, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
Cybercrime group claims to have breached Red Hat ‘s private GitHub repositories

The cybercrime group calling itself the Crimson Collective claimed to have compromised Red Hat ‘s private GitHub repositories. The Crimson Collective claimed it had stolen 570GB from Red Hat ’s private GitHub repositories, including 28,000 projects and approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs) with sensitive network data. CERs often contain sensitive info, including infrastructure details, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2025
China-linked APT Phantom Taurus uses Net-Star malware in espionage campaigns against key sectors

China-linked APT Phantom Taurus targets government and telecom orgs with Net-Star malware for espionage, using unique tactics over two years. China-nexus APT Phantom Taurus has targeted government and telecom organizations for espionage, using Net-Star malware and distinct TTPs. Phantom Taurus is a previously undocumented Chinese APT, it has targeted entities in Africa, the Middle East, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2025
OpenSSL patches 3 vulnerabilities, urging immediate updates

OpenSSL updates addressed 3 flaws enabling key recovery, code execution, and DoS attacks. Users are urged to update asap. The OpenSSL Project has released security updates to address three vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, and CVE-2025-9232, in its open-source SSL/TLS toolkit. OpenSSL is an open-source library that provides encryption, decryption, hashing, and digital certificate management. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2025
Apple urges users to update iPhone and Mac to patch font bug

Apple released iOS and macOS updates to fix a flaw in font processing that could trigger a denial-of-service condition or memory corruption. Apple released iOS and macOS updates to address a medium-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-43400, in font processing that could trigger a denial-of-service condition or memory corruption. The CVE-2025-43400 flaw is an out-of-bounds write […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2025
WestJet confirms cyberattack exposed IDs, passports in June incident

WestJet confirms June cyberattack that disrupted certain internal systems, exposed customer passports and IDs. WestJet airline confirmed the June security breach exposed customer passports and IDs. WestJet is a Canadian airline that operates both domestic and international flights. Founded in 1996, it started as a low-cost carrier and has grown to become Canada’s second-largest airline, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2025
Broadcom patches VMware Zero-Day actively exploited by UNC5174

Broadcom patched six VMware flaws, including CVE-2025-41244, which has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by UNC5174 Broadcom addressed six VMware vulnerabilities, including four high-severity issues. One of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score 7.8), allows local users to escalate to root via VMware Tools and Aria Operations. “VMware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2025
UK convicts Chinese national in £5.5B crypto fraud, marks world’s largest Bitcoin seizure

A Chinese national was convicted in the UK for crypto fraud as police seized ÂŁ5.5B (61,000 Bitcoin), the world’s largest cryptocurrency seizure. UK authorities raided the London home of Chinese national Zhimin Qian (47), also known as Yadi Zhang, and confiscated ÂŁ5.5 billion (about $7.39 billion) in cryptocurrency, totaling 61,000 Bitcoin. Police described it as […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Adminer, Cisco IOS, Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, Libraesva ESG, and Sudo flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adminer, Cisco IOS, Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, Libraesva ESG, and Sudo flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Adminer, Cisco IOS, Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, Libraesva ESG, and Sudo flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions […]