Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2025
Attackers exploited a patched WSUS flaw (CVE-2025-59287) to gain access, use PowerCat for a shell, and deploy the ShadowPad malware. AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) researchers reported that threat actors exploited a recently patched WSUS flaw (CVE-2025-59287) to deliver the ShadowPad malware. ShadowPad is a backdoor widely used by China-linked APT groups and privately sold […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2025
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Contagious Interview Actors Now Utilize JSON Storage Services for Malware Delivery RONINGLOADER: DragonBreath’s New Path to PPL Abuse npm Malware Campaign Uses Adspect Cloaking to Deliver Malicious Redirects GPT Trade: Fake Google Play Store […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 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. BadAudio malware: how APT24 scaled its cyberespionage through supply chain attacks U.S. CISA adds an Oracle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2025
APT24 used supply chain attacks and varied techniques to deploy the BadAudio malware in a long-running cyberespionage campaign. China-linked group APT24 used supply-chain attacks and multiple techniques over three years to deploy the BadAudio downloader and additional malware payloads, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warns. According to the researchers, the group shifted from broad web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2025
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) data leaked after a breach at IT provider Almaviva. A hacker claims the theft of 2.3 TB of sensitive data. Data belonging to Italy’s national railway operator Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) was leaked after a data breach at IT provider Almaviva. FS Italiane Group is Italy’s state-owned railway company, managing passenger […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2025
The Android trojan Sturnus targets communications from secure messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Sturnus is a new Android banking trojan with full device-takeover abilities. It bypasses encrypted messaging by capturing on-screen content and can steal banking credentials, remotely control the device, and hide fraudulent actions from the user. ThreatFabric analysis shows Sturnus malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2025
Operation WrtHug hijacks tens of thousands of outdated ASUS routers worldwide, mainly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, forming a large botnet. A new campaign called Operation WrtHug has compromised tens of thousands of outdated or end-of-life ASUS routers worldwide, mainly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, pulling them into a large malicious network. SecurityScorecard […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2025
Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps. On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2025
North Korean Contagious Interview actors now host malware on JSON storage sites to deliver trojanized code projects, NVISO reports. North Korea-linked actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have updated their tactics, using JSON storage services (e.g. JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io) to host and deliver malware through trojanized code projects, according to a new NVISO report. “NVISO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2025
RondoDox botnet exploits unpatched XWiki flaw CVE-2025-24893 to gain RCE and infect more servers, despite fixes released in February 2025. RondoDox is targeting unpatched XWiki servers via critical RCE flaw CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score of 9.8), pulling more devices into its botnet despite patches released in Feb 2025. The XWiki Platform is a generic wiki framework […]
Cyber Crime / December 09, 2025
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