SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 44

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 44

Sansec uncovered a supply chain attack via 21 backdoored Magento extensions

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US authorities have indicted Black Kingdom ransomware admin

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Malicious Go Modules designed to wipe Linux systems

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 44

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 522 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Rhysida Ransomware gang claims the hack of the Government of Peru

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DragonForce group claims the theft of data after Co-op cyberattack

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U.S. CISA adds Yii Framework and Commvault Command Center flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ireland's DPC fined TikTok €530M for sending EU user data to China

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Microsoft sets all new accounts passwordless by default

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Luxury department store Harrods suffered a cyberattack

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U.S. CISA adds SonicWall SMA100 and Apache HTTP Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Pro-Russia hacktivist group NoName057(16) is targeting Dutch organizations

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FBI shared a list of phishing domains associated with the LabHost PhaaS platform

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Canadian electric utility Nova Scotia Power and parent company Emera suffered a cyberattack

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Two SonicWall SMA100 flaws actively exploited in the wild

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Hive0117 group targets Russian firms with new variant of DarkWatchman malware

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Russia-linked group Nebulous Mantis targets NATO-related defense organizations

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France links Russian APT28 to attacks on dozen French entities

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Indian Court ordered to block email service Proton Mail

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AirBorne flaws can lead to fully hijack Apple devices

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U.S. CISA adds SAP NetWeaver flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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SentinelOne warns of threat actors targeting its systems and high-value clients

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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 actively exploited zero-day flaws in 2024

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VeriSource data breach impacted 4M individuals

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U.S. CISA adds Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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The Turmoil Following BreachForums Shutdown: Confusion, Risks, and a New Beginning

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Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia

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A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users

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PoC rootkit Curing evades traditional Linux detection systems

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Attackers chained Craft CMS zero-days attacks in the wild

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Storm-1977 targets education sector with password spraying, Microsoft warns

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 43

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 521 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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African multinational telco giant MTN Group disclosed a data breach

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CEO of cybersecurity firm charged with installing malware on hospital systems

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JPCERT warns of DslogdRAT malware deployed in Ivanti Connect Secure

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SAP NetWeaver zero-day allegedly exploited by an initial access broker

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Operation SyncHole: Lazarus APT targets supply chains in South Korea

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Interlock ransomware gang started leaking data allegedly stolen from leading kidney dialysis firm DaVita

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Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) data breach impacted 5.5 million patients

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Crooks exploit the death of Pope Francis

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WhatsApp introduces Advanced Chat Privacy to protect sensitive communications

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Android spyware hidden in mapping software targets Russian soldiers

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Crypto mining campaign targets Docker environments with new evasion technique

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The popular xrpl.js Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack

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British retailer giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) is managing a cyber incident

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Chinese Cybercriminals Released Z-NFC Tool for Payment Fraud

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Millions of SK Telecom customers are potentially at risk following USIM data compromise

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Japan ’s FSA warns of unauthorized trades via stolen credentials from fake security firms' sites

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Kimsuky APT exploited BlueKeep RDP flaw in attacks against South Korea and Japan

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New sophisticated malware SuperCard X targets Androids via NFC relay attacks

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Russia-linked APT29 targets European diplomatic entities with GRAPELOADER malware

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 42

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 520 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Attackers exploited SonicWall SMA appliances since January 2025

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ASUS routers with AiCloud vulnerable to auth bypass exploit

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U.S. CISA adds Apple products and Microsoft Windows NTLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Entertainment venue management firm Legends International disclosed a data breach

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Node.js malvertising campaign targets crypto users

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Apple released emergency updates for actively exploited flaws

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U.S. CISA adds SonicWall SMA100 Appliance flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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CISA's 11-Month extension ensures continuity of MITRE's CVE Program

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Cyber Threats Against Energy Sector Surge as Global Tensions Mount

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Government contractor Conduent disclosed a data breach

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Critical Apache Roller flaw allows to retain unauthorized access even after a password change

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Meta will use public EU user data to train its AI models

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Hertz disclosed a data breach following 2024 Cleo zero-day attack

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Gladinet flaw CVE-2025-30406 actively exploited in the wild

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New malware ‘ResolverRAT’ targets healthcare, pharmaceutical firms

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Malicious NPM packages target PayPal users

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Tycoon2FA phishing kit rolled out significant updates

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South African telecom provider Cell C disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 41

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 519 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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China admitted its role in Volt Typhoon cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure

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Symbolic Link trick lets attackers bypass FortiGate patches, Fortinet warns

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Attackers are exploiting recently disclosed OttoKit WordPress plugin flaw

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Laboratory Services Cooperative data breach impacts 1.6 Million People

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Palo Alto warns of brute-force login attempts on PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways indicating possible upcoming attacks

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Gamaredon targeted the military mission of a Western country based in Ukraine

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U.S. CISA adds Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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AkiraBot: AI-Powered spam bot evades CAPTCHA to target 80,000+ websites

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An APT group exploited ESET flaw to execute malware

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Oracle confirms the hack of two obsolete servers hacked. No Oracle Cloud systems or customer data were affected

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National Social Security Fund of Morocco Suffers Data Breach

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Critical Fortinet FortiSwitch flaw allows remote attackers to change admin passwords

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The US Treasury’s OCC disclosed an undetected major email breach for over a year

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U.S. CISA adds Gladinet CentreStack and ZTA Microsoft Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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WhatsApp fixed a spoofing flaw that could enable Remote Code Execution

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Everest ransomware group’s Tor leak site offline after a defacement

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Google fixed two actively exploited Android zero-days

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U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA Gateways flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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A member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleads guilty

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The controversial case of the threat actor EncryptHub

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PoisonSeed Campaign uses stolen email credentials to spread crypto seed scams and and empty wallets

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EDR-as-a-Service makes the headlines in the cybercrime landscape

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Oracle privately notifies Cloud data breach to customers

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 40

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 518 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Expert used ChatGPT-4o to create a replica of his passport in just 5 minutes bypassing KYC

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A flaw in Verizon’s iOS Call Filter app exposed call records of millions

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Port of Seattle 's August data breach impacted 90,000 people

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President Trump fired the head of U.S. Cyber Command and NSA

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Critical flaw in Apache Parquet's Java Library allows remote code execution

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CERT-UA reports attacks in March 2025 targeting Ukrainian agencies with WRECKSTEEL Malware

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39M secrets exposed: GitHub rolls out new security tools

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China-linked group UNC5221 exploited Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day since mid-March

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Europol-led operation shuts down CSAM platform Kidflix, leading to 79 arrests

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New Triada Trojan comes preinstalled on Android devices

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New advanced FIN7's Anubis backdoor allows to gain full system control on Windows

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U.S. CISA adds Apache Tomcat flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Apple backported fixes for three actively exploited flaws to older devices

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Spike in Palo Alto Networks scanner activity suggests imminent cyber threats

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Microsoft warns of critical flaw in Canon printer drivers

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CrushFTP CVE-2025-2825 flaw actively exploited in the wild

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France’s antitrust authority fines Apple €150M for issues related to its App Tracking Transparency

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Hiding WordPress malware in the mu-plugins directory to avoid detection

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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Russia-linked Gamaredon targets Ukraine with Remcos RAT

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CoffeeLoader uses a GPU-based packer to evade detection

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Morphing Meerkat phishing kits exploit DNS MX records

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 39

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 517 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Sam’s Club Investigates Alleged Cl0p Ransomware Breach

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FBI and DOJ seize $8.2 Million in romance baiting crypto fraud scheme

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Experts warn of the new sophisticate Crocodilus mobile banking Trojan

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Crooks are reviving the Grandoreiro banking trojan

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Russian authorities arrest three suspects behind Mamont Android banking trojan

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Mozilla fixed critical Firefox vulnerability CVE-2025-2857

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U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium Mojo flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Crooks target DeepSeek users with fake sponsored Google ads to deliver malware

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U.S. CISA adds Sitecore CMS and XP, and GitHub Action flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Arkana Security group claims the hack of US telco provider WideOpenWest (WOW!)

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New ReaderUpdate malware variants target macOS users

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BlackLock Ransomware Targeted by Cybersecurity Firm

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Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day since the start of the year

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Authentication bypass CVE-2025-22230 impacts VMware Windows Tools

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Android malware campaigns use .NET MAUI to evade detection

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Astral Foods, South Africa’s largest poultry producer, lost over $1M due to a cyberattack

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A cyberattack hits Ukraine’s national railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia

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Chinese APT Weaver Ant infiltrated a telco in Asia for over four years

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Medusa ransomware uses malicious Windows driver ABYSSWORKER to disable security tools

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Attackers can bypass middleware auth checks by exploiting critical Next.js flaw

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FBI warns of malicious free online document converters spreading malware

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Cloak ransomware group hacked the Virginia Attorney General’s Office

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 38

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 516 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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UAT-5918 ATP group targets critical Taiwan

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U.S. Treasury removed sanctions against the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash

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Zero-day broker Operation Zero offers up to $4 million for Telegram exploits

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RansomHub affiliate uses custom backdoor Betruger

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Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaws actively exploited in the wild

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Pennsylvania State Education Association data breach impacts 500,000 individuals

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Veeam fixed critical Backup & Replication flaw CVE-2025-23120

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U.S. CISA adds Edimax IC-7100 IP Camera, NAKIVO, and SAP NetWeaver AS Java flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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CERT-UA warns of cyber espionage against the Ukrainian defense industry using Dark Crystal RAT

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WhatsApp fixed zero-day flaw used to deploy Paragon Graphite spyware

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California Cryobank, the largest US sperm bank, disclosed a data breach

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Rules File Backdoor: AI Code Editors exploited for silent supply chain attacks

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U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy and GitHub Action flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Nation-state actors and cybercrime gangs abuse malicious .lnk files for espionage and data theft

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ChatGPT SSRF bug quickly becomes a favorite attack vector

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GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised in supply chain attack

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New StilachiRAT uses sophisticated techniques to avoid detection

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Threat actors rapidly exploit new Apache Tomcat flaw following PoC release

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Attackers use CSS to create evasive phishing messages

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Researcher releases free GPU-Based decryptor for Linux Akira ransomware

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Denmark warns of increased state-sponsored campaigns targeting the European telcos

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 37

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 515 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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A ransomware attack hit the Micronesian state of Yap, causing the health system network to go down.

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New MassJacker clipper targets pirated software seekers

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Cisco IOS XR flaw allows attackers to crash BGP process on routers

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LockBit ransomware developer Rostislav Panev was extradited from Israel to the U.S.

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SuperBlack Ransomware operators exploit Fortinet Firewall flaws in recent attacks

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U.S. CISA adds Apple products and Juniper Junos OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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GitLab addressed critical auth bypass flaws in CE and EE

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North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft spotted using new Android spyware KoSpy

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Meta warns of actively exploited flaw in FreeType library

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Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure organizations until February 2025

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China-linked APT UNC3886 targets EoL Juniper routers

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U.S. CISA adds six Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 fix six actively exploited zero-days

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New Ballista Botnet spreads using TP-Link flaw. Is it an Italian job?

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Apple fixed the third actively exploited zero-day of 2025

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Switzerland's NCSC requires cyberattack reporting for critical infrastructure within 24 hours

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SideWinder APT targets maritime and nuclear sectors with enhanced toolset

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U.S. CISA adds Advantive VeraCore and Ivanti EPM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cybersecurity Challenges in Cross-Border Data Transfers and Regulatory Compliance Strategies

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Elon Musk blames a massive cyberattack for the X outages

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Experts warn of mass exploitation of critical PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577

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RansomHouse gang claims the hack of the Loretto Hospital in Chicago

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North Korea-linked APT Moonstone used Qilin ransomware in limited attacks

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Large-scale cryptocurrency miner campaign targets Russian users with SilentCryptoMiner

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Feds seized $23 million in crypto stolen using keys from LastPass breaches

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Undocumented hidden feature found in Espressif ESP32 microchip

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 36

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 514 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Akira ransomware gang used an unsecured webcam to bypass EDR

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Japanese telecom giant NTT suffered a data breach that impacted 18,000 companies

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Mirai-based botnets exploit CVE-2025-1316 zero-day in Edimax IP cameras

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The Role of Differential Privacy in Protecting Sensitive Information in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

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International law enforcement operation seized the domain of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex

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Medusa Ransomware targeted over 40 organizations in 2025

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Elastic patches critical Kibana flaw allowing code execution

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The U.S. DoJ charges 12 Chinese nationals for state-linked cyber operations

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Chinese Lotus Blossom APT targets multiple sectors with Sagerunex backdoor

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China-linked APT Silk Typhoon targets IT Supply Chain

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Hunters International gang claims the theft of 1.4 TB of data allegedly stolen from Tata Technologies

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New Eleven11bot botnet infected +86K IoT devices

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Polish Space Agency POLSA disconnected its network following a cyberattack

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U.S. CISA adds Linux kernel and VMware ESXi and Workstation flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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VMware fixed three actively exploited zero-days in ESX products

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