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
September 01, 2025
Scammer stole $1.5M from Baltimore by posing as a vendor and tricking staff into changing bank account details. A scammer stole over $1.5M from Baltimore city by spoofing a vendor and convincing staff to alter bank details, which appears to be a classic Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. Between February and March 2025, the city’s […]
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 31, 2025
Amazon stopped a Russia-linked APT29 watering hole attack that hijacked Microsoft device code authentication via compromised sites. Amazon announced that it had disrupted an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked cyber espionage group APT29 (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, BlueBravo, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes). Amazon experts labeled the attacks as an opportunistic watering hole campaign using compromised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2025
Lab Dookhtegan hacking group allegedly disrupted communications of 60 Iranian ships run by sanctioned firms NITC and IRISL. The hacking group Lab Dookhtegan allegedly disrupted the communications of 60 Iranian ships. The attack hit at least 39 tankers and 25 cargo ships operated by Iranian maritime companies National Iranian Oil Tanker Company and Iran Shipping Lines, which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2025
WhatsApp warns users targeted by advanced spyware, sending threat notifications to affected individuals from the past 90 days. A new zero-click exploit used to hack WhatsApp users, reported Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of Security Lab at @AmnestyTech. WhatsApp has just sent out a round of threat notifications to individuals they believe were targeted by an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2025
US and Dutch authorities shut down VerifTools, a major fake ID marketplace selling documents to bypass KYC checks and access accounts. Law enforcement in the US and the Netherlands dismantled VerifTools, a major fake ID marketplace selling ID documents to bypass KYC checks and gain unauthorized access to online accounts. Authorities seized two marketplace domains […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2025
Sangoma warns of an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day affecting systems with publicly exposed admin control panels. The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team addressed an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-57819 (CVSS score of 10.0), impacting systems with an internet-facing administrator control panel (ACP). FreePBX is an open-source telephony software platform that provides a web-based graphical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2025
Google warns that Salesloft Drift OAuth breach affects all integrations, not just Salesforce. All tokens should be treated as compromised. Google disclosed that the Salesloft Drift OAuth breach is broader than Salesforce, affecting all integrations. GTIG and Mandiant advise all customers to treat connected tokens as compromised. Attackers used stolen OAuth tokens to access some […]
Cyber Crime / November 04, 2025
