Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
Chinese-speaking APT CL-STA-1062 targeted Southeast Asian government and energy networks open-source tools, and a new TinyRCT backdoor. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers published a detailed report on a Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as CL-STA-1062, that has been running persistent operations across East Asia since at least March 2022 and shifted focus to Southeast Asian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
Russian authorities used Cellebrite tools to unlock an activist’s iPhone and analyze private data despite canceled support, raising abuse concerns. On May 31, 2021, Russian security services pulled opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov off a flight at St. Petersburg airport and confiscated his iPhone 12 and MacBook. He never consented to a search and never gave […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco and PTC Windchill and FlexPLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-12569 is a critical remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
Polymarket confirmed hackers stole funds from some users after attackers injected malicious code through a compromised third-party vendor. Polymarket confirmed that a security breach at a third-party vendor allowed attackers to inject malicious code into its website, leading to the theft of funds from an undisclosed number of users. The company said it has contained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2026
macOS.Gaslight: DPRK Rust implant for Mac with a prompt injection payload designed to fool AI-based malware analysts. SentinelLabs researchers spotted a Rust-based macOS implant, dubbed macOS.Gaslight, that surfaced in early June after an Apple XProtect update pointed to a VirusTotal sample uploaded on May 22. The binary was undetected by static engines at the time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2026
Tata Electronics confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to steal 630GB of data, including alleged Apple supplier and Tesla documents. Tata Electronics, a major supplier to Apple and Tesla, has confirmed a cybersecurity breach weeks after stolen data was advertised on a hacker forum. Tata Electronics confirmed a cyberattack affected parts of its IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2026
Curl fixed 18 vulnerabilities, including a 25-year-old bug, with issues spanning auth bypass, memory safety, and host validation in libcurl. Curl maintainers addressed eighteen vulnerabilities with a single update, and one of them goes back 25 years. That’s not a typo, it really sat there since the early 2000s. curl is a widely used open-source […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2026
Mistic is a stealthy backdoor used by KongTuke-linked actors to keep long-term access in ransomware-targeted networks. Mistic is the kind of backdoor that tells you the operator wants time, not noise. Symantec security researchers say it has shown up in financially motivated attacks against insurance, education, IT, and professional services firms, and they link it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2026
Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat actor exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS base score of 7.8) as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed. The flaw allows an authenticated attacker with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2026
Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 DraftKings credential-stuffing attack, received 18 months in prison. The group used usernames and passwords stolen from other breaches to access about 1,600 accounts and steal roughly […]
