Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2025
Cybercriminals spread Brokewell via fake TradingView Premium ads on Meta, stealing crypto and data with remote control since July 2024. Bitdefender warns threat actors are abusing Meta ads to spread fake TradingView Premium apps for Android, delivering Brokewell malware to steal crypto and data. “Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered a wave of malicious ads on Facebook […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2025
ScarCruft (APT37) launches Operation HanKook Phantom, a phishing campaign using RokRAT to target academics, ex-officials, and researchers. Cybersecurity firm Seqrite Labs uncovered a phishing campaign, tracked as dubbed Operation HanKook Phantom, by the North Korea-linked group APT37 (aka Ricochet Chollima, ScarCruft, Reaper, and Group123). Threat actors are using a fake “National Intelligence Research Society Newsletter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2025
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Lab Dookhtegan hacking group disrupts communications on dozens of Iranian ships New zero-click exploit allegedly used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2025
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 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 26, 2025
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 25, 2025
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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2025
New Android spyware Android.Backdoor.916.origin is disguised as an antivirus linked to Russia’s intelligence agency FSB, and targets business executives. Doctor Web researchers observed a multifunctional backdoor Android.Backdoor.916.origin targeting Android devices belonging to representatives of Russian businesses. The malware executes attacker commands, enabling surveillance, keylogging, and theft of chats, browser data, and even live camera/audio streams. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2025
Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reports a ransomware attack to SEC, the company was forced to take offline operational systems. Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reported a ransomware attack to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company was forced to take offline operational systems following the attack. Data I/O is a leading provider of manual […]
