Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2026
Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new malware family that uses MQTT, a lightweight messaging protocol commonly found in smart devices and industrial systems, to quietly control infected Windows and Linux machines. Most malware connects directly to a command-and-control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2026
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter REVSTEALER ramps up Breaking the Seal: Static Deobfuscation of JSCeal’s Compiled V8 Bytecode GuardBreaker: Derailing AI-assisted malware analysis with a code comment DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2026
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 international press. The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2026
Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware. A US federal court sentenced the 44-year-old to four years in prison this week for conspiracy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2026
Three threat groups are exploiting two Cisco FMC flaws to steal credentials, gain root access and deploy Qilin ransomware. Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) flaws. The main target is CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely bypass security controls, run […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2026
PoisonedRefresh rootkit injects PHP web shells into F5 BIG-IP APM Apache memory, leaving no disk artifacts. SophosLabs published a detailed technical analysis on September 8, 2026, of a Linux implant, dubbed PoisonedRefresh by ESET, they found in compromised F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager environments. Sophos tracks it as Linux/Agnt-IC. F5 has confirmed exploitation of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2026
North Korea-linked hackers hid a backdoor inside HAProxy, masking C2 traffic and stealing data while keeping the load balancer working normally. North Korean-linked hackers found a genuinely clever hiding spot for their malware: inside the actual source code of HAProxy, the load balancing software running at the edge of two South Korean companies’ networks. Rapid7’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2026
StyleSmuggler Magento zero-day is under active attack, letting unauthenticated attackers execute code and install backdoors on stores that may already be patched. A new zero-day flaw, dubbed StyleSmuggler, in Magento and Adobe Commerce is under active attack, giving unauthenticated attackers a path to run code on vulnerable online stores. Sansec researchers say it affects current […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2026
JSCeal hides crypto-stealing malware in V8 bytecode, but researchers built a tool to decompile it and expose its advanced theft capabilities. JSCeal is a cryptocurrency stealer that Check Point Research has tracked since early 2025. Unlike most malware, it hides its code in a format that makes analysis much harder. Check Point presented its latest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2026
Berlin refused a 30 Bitcoin ransom, leading hackers to leak 6TB of sensitive state administration and national defense data on the dark web. When a ransomware gang dumps nearly six terabytes of state administration files onto the dark web, ignoring them does not make the problem go away. The Rhysida ransomware group recently carried out […]
