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Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2025
Ex-Defense contractor exec pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russia

Former US defense contractor exec Peter Williams pled guilty to stealing trade secrets and selling cyber exploits to a Russian broker, per the US DOJ. Ex-US defense contractor Peter Williams (39) admits stealing US trade secrets and selling cyber exploits to a Russian broker. Williams, an Australian national, pleaded guilty to stealing and selling U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2025
Dentsu’s US subsidiary Merkle hit by cyberattack, staff and client data exposed

Dentsu said its U.S. unit Merkle was hit by a cyberattack exposing staff and client data, forcing some systems offline to mitigate the security breach. Japanese multinational advertising and public relations company Dentsu, one of the largest marketing agencies in the world, announced that its U.S.-based subsidiary Merkle suffered from a cyber attack that exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2025
Hacktivists breach Canada’s critical infrastructure, cyber Agency warns

Canada’s cyber agency warns hacktivists breached critical infrastructure, altering industrial controls and risking public safety. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security revealed that hacktivists have repeatedly breached systems of country’s critical infrastructure systems in the country. Attackers tampered with industrial controls at a water treatment facility, an oil & gas firm, and an agricultural facility. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Oracle, Windows, Kentico, and Apple flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso is a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) platform. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2025
Herodotus Android malware mimics human typing to evade detection

Threat Fabric researchers spotted Herodotus Android malware mimicking human typing with random delays to evade detection. Threat Fabric found a new Android malware, named Herodotus, which mimics human typing by adding random delays to evade detection. Herodotus allows operators to takeover devices and bypass behaviour biometrics detection, it is offered as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS). The researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2025
Aisuru botnet is behind record 20Tb/sec DDoS attacks

A new Mirai-based IoT botnet, dubbed Aisuru, was used to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks exceeding 20Tb/sec and/or 4gpps. In October 2025, the Aisuru Mirai-based IoT botnet launched massive DDoS attacks of over 20Tb/sec, mainly targeting online gaming, cybersecurity firm Netscout reports. The botnet uses residential proxies to reflect HTTPS DDoS attacks. Its nodes are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2025
Ransomware payments hit record low: only 23% Pay in Q3 2025

Only 23% of ransomware victims paid in Q3 2025, the lowest ever, continuing a six-year decline in payment rates, Coveware reports. Cybersecurity firm Coveware reports that only 23% of ransomware victims paid attackers in Q3 2025, the lowest rate ever recorded. The researchers note this continues a six-year decline in payment rates. After 28% of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2025
X warns users to re-enroll passkeys and YubiKeys for 2FA by Nov 10

X urges users with passkeys or YubiKeys to re-enroll 2FA by Nov 10, 2025, or risk account lockout. Re-enroll, switch 2FA, or disable it. Social media platform X is urging users who use passkeys or hardware security keys like YubiKeys for two-factor authentication (2FA) to re-enroll their keys by November 10, 2025, to keep account […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2025
Memento Labs, the ghost of Hacking Team, has returned — or maybe it was never gone at all.

Kaspersky links the first Chrome zero-day of 2025 to tools used in attacks attributed to Memento Labs, formerly known as the Hacking Team. The actor behind Operation ForumTroll used the same tools seen in Dante spyware attacks. Kaspersky researchers linked the first Chrome zero-day of 2025 (CVE-2025-2783), a sandbox escape flaw, to the arsenal of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2025
Crafted URLs can trick OpenAI Atlas into running dangerous commands

Attackers can trick OpenAI Atlas browser via prompt injection, treating malicious instructions disguised as URLs in the omnibox as trusted commands. Attackers can exploit the OpenAI Atlas browser by disguising malicious instructions as URLs in the omnibox, which Atlas interprets as trusted commands, enabling harmful actions. NeuralTrust researchers warn that agentic browsers fail by not […]