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Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2025
Cybercriminals Target Brazil: 248,725 Exposed in CIEE One Data Breach

Resecurity found a breach in Brazil’s CIEE One platform, exposing PII and documents, later sold by data broker “888” on the dark web. Resecurity identified a data breach of one of the major platforms in Brazil connecting businesses and trainees called CIEE One – leading to the compromise of sensitive PII, including ID records, contact […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2025
Europol shuts down Archetyp Market, longest-running dark web drug marketplace

Europol shuts down Archetyp Market, longest-running dark web drug site, the police arrested the admin in Spain, top vendors hit in Sweden. An international law enforcement operation led by German authorities has shut down Archetyp Market, the longest-running dark web drug marketplace, in a coordinated operation across six countries with support from Europol and Eurojust. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2025
Cisco removed the backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager

Digital communications technology giant Cisco addressed a static SSH credentials vulnerability in its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM). A flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20309 (CVSS score of 10), in Cisco Unified Communications Manager and its Session Management Edition lets remote attackers log in using hardcoded root credentials set during development. Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is a call […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2025
U.S. Sanctions Russia’s Aeza Group for aiding crooks with bulletproof hosting

U.S. Treasury sanctions Russia-based Aeza Group and affiliates for aiding cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Russia-based Aeza Group for aiding global cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. A bulletproof hosting service is a type of internet hosting provider that knowingly allows cybercriminals to host malicious content […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2025
Qantas confirms customer data breach amid Scattered Spider attacks

Qantas reports a cyberattack after hackers accessed customer data via a third-party platform, amid ongoing Scattered Spider aviation breaches. Qantas, Australia’s largest airline, disclosed a cyberattack after hackers accessed a third-party platform used by a call centre, stealing significant customer data. The breach, linked to ongoing Scattered Spider activity, was detected and contained on Monday. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2025
CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025

Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit exists in the wild. Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit is available in the wild. “Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 138.0.7204.96 allowed a remote attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2025
A sophisticated cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is probing a sophisticated cyberattack that was discovered and contained last week. On June 30, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was hit by a sophisticated and targeted cyberattack. The organization confirmed that the incident was detected and contained by its defense systems. “Late last week, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2025
GDPR violations prompt Germany to push Google and Apple to ban DeepSeek AI

Germany asked Google and Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from their app stores, citing GDPR violations over unlawful data collection and transfers to China. The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI app from their app stores due to GDPR violations. On May 6, 2025, Berlin’s Data Protection Commissioner […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2025
Europol dismantles €460M crypto scam targeting 5,000 victims worldwide

Europol busted a crypto scam ring that laundered €460M from 5,000+ victims. Operation Borrelli involved Spain, the U.S., France, and Estonia. Europol has taken down a massive cryptocurrency fraud ring that scammed over 5,000 people worldwide, laundering around €460 million ($540 million). The international operation, dubbed Operation Borrelli, began in 2023 and was led by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Citrix NetScaler vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6543, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2025-6543 (CVSS score of 9.2) is a memory overflow vulnerability in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when configured […]