IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2025
Healthcare Services Group discloses 2024 data breach that impacted 624,496 people

Healthcare Services Group suffered a 2024 breach, exposing personal data of 624,000+ people. Affected individuals are now being notified. In 2024, Healthcare Services Group suffered a data breach that impacted over 624,496 people, as per notification sent to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. Healthcare Services Group, Inc. (HCSG) is a U.S.-based company that provides housekeeping, laundry, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2025
ESET warns of PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware

ESET found PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware, using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b via Ollama to generate and run malicious Lua scripts. In a series of messages published on X, ESET Research announced the discovery of the first known AI-powered ransomware, named PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2025
China linked UNC6384 targeted diplomats by hijacking web traffic

The China-linked APT group UNC6384 targeted diplomats by hijacking web traffic to redirect it to a website that delivered malware. China-linked cyberespionage group UNC6384 targeted diplomats by hijacking web traffic to redirect to a website used to deliver malware, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warns. Cyberspies hijacked a network’s captive portal using an advanced adversary-in-the-middle […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2025
Farmers Insurance discloses a data breach impacting 1.1M customers

Farmers Insurance suffered a breach tied to Salesforce attacks, exposing data of 1.1M customers across its nationwide insurance network. Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach affecting 1,071,172 customers, linked to the recent wave of Salesforce attacks, as per Bleeping Computer. The company is an American insurer group of vehicles, homes and small businesses and also […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2025
Citrix fixed three NetScaler flaws, one of them actively exploited in the wild

Citrix addressed three vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one that has been actively exploited in the wild. Citrix addressed three security flaws (CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776, CVE-2025-8424) in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one (CVE-2025-7775) that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. “Exploits of CVE-2025-7775 on unmitigated appliances have been observed.” […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2025
Auchan discloses data breach: data of hundreds of thousands of customers exposed

French retailer Auchan suffered a data breach impacting hundreds of thousands of customers, with personal information stolen. French retailer Auchan suffered a data breach that impacted hundreds of thousands of customers, resulting in the theft of personal information. The company has already notified the impacted customers. Threat actors stole customers’ personal data linked to their […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Citrix Session Recording, and Git flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Citrix Session Recording, and Git flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Citrix Session Recording, and Git flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions for these flaws: CVE-2024-8069 is a limited remote code execution with privilege […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2025
Docker fixes critical Desktop flaw allowing container escapes

Docker fixed a critical flaw in the Docker Desktop app for Windows and macOS that could potentially allow an attacker to escape the confines of a container. Docker fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9074 (CVSS score of 9.3), impacting Docker Desktop app for Windows and macOS. An attacker can exploit the flaw to potentially escape […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2025
Malicious apps with +19M installs removed from Google Play because spreading Anatsa banking trojan and other malware

Experts found 77 malicious Android apps with 19M+ installs on Google Play, spreading malware, including the Anatsa (TeaBot) banking trojan. While investigating Anatsa (Tea Bot) banking trojan infections, Zscaler’s ThreatLabs discovered seventy-seven malicious Android apps with more than 19 million installs. Several Anatsa decoy apps have each been downloaded more than 50,000 times. The malicious apps […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2025
Pakistan-linked APT36 abuses Linux .desktop files to drop custom malware in new campaign

APT36 uses Linux .desktop files in new attacks on Indian gov & defense, aiming for data theft and persistent espionage access. Transparent Tribe (aka APT36, Operation C-Major, and Mythic Leopard), a Pakistan-linked threat actor, is using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. The APT group […]