Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2026
Fake apps like WireVPN and a trojanized 7-Zip turn victims’ devices into residential proxies, letting criminals route traffic through their IPs. Infoblox’s threat research team started pulling on a single thread in early 2026: a fake version of the 7-Zip archive utility hosted at 7zip[.]com instead of the real site, 7-zip[.]org. The researchers uncovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2026
RedWing: The Android Banking Trojan You Can Rent on Telegram for Less Than a Coffee Subscription Zimperium’s zLabs team has uncovered RedWing, an Android spyware operation sold as a subscription service through Telegram, with links to Russian threat actors and apparent roots in the Oblivion malware family. It comes with documentation, tutorial videos, a referral […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2026
Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho, also tracked under the name Eagle Werewolf. The group runs two parallel tracks: financially motivated attacks against private individuals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in recent surveillance research: former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware while serving on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Sysdig reports an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack end-to-end, exploiting flaws, stealing creds, moving laterally, and encrypting data without humans. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team has documented what it assesses to be the first ransomware operation driven end-to-end by a large language model. The operator, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, broke into a server, harvested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Google disrupted NetNut, a major proxy network that routed internet traffic through compromised home devices used by cybercriminals. Google has disrupted NetNut, one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks. The service routed internet traffic through home devices, allowing customers to hide their real location and identity. “Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBleed, a large-scale campaign that harvested credentials from over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls worldwide, directly to two active ransomware operations: INC Ransom and Lynx. The link isn’t circumstantial. An operator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
CISA confirms BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is now used in ransomware attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges through Microsoft Defender. BlueHammer, tracked as CVE-2026-33825, has moved from proof-of-concept noise to real ransomware attacks in the wild, the US CISA confirms. BlueHammer allows attackers to escalate privileges locally in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, along with two other zero-days dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
RustDuck is a small, evolving DDoS botnet migrating to Rust. It uses advanced encryption, anti-analysis evasion, and exploits known IoT flaws. Since February 2026, researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab have been tracking a new malware family, called RustDuck, that hijacks routers, cameras, Android set-top boxes, and exposed servers, then uses them to flood targets with junk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2026
Microsoft shut down the StegoAd campaign, which used 119 malicious Edge extensions, hit 2.6M installs, and ran undetected for two years. Microsoft just shut down one of the more technically clever malicious extension campaigns it’s ever documented. The operation, named StegoAd, ran 119 extensions on the Edge Add-ons store, racked up roughly 2.6 million installs, […]
