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WhatsApp Web in the crosshairs! How the worm that distributes the banking Trojan works
Sophos analysts have discovered a complex malware operation by security experts that uses the popular messaging service WhatsApp to spread banking Trojans, targeting Brazilian banks and cryptocurrency...
RMPocalypse: A critical bug in AMD SEV-SNP threatens cloud security.
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the AMD SEV-SNP hardware security architecture, impacting major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) . This flaw allows malicious hy...
Spyware yes, spyware no: it’s just a prospect! NSO Group is now under US control.
Israeli company NSO Group, developer of the infamous Pegasus spyware , recently came under the control of American investors. A company spokesperson announced that the new funding amounts to tens of m...
DAS: The world’s ear hidden in submarine cables
Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , r...
Between AI and fear, Skynet teaches: “We’ll build bunkers before launching AGI.”
The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by “we.” The phrase pe...
RDP Services Exposed in the Crosshairs! A Botnet of 100,000 IPs Scans the Network
In the United States, a large-scale, coordinated botnet campaign is targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)-based services. The scale and organizational structure of this campaign poses a significant ...
Everyone’s Hacking iPhones! Apple Increases iOS Reward to $5 Million
Apple has significantly expanded its bounty program for security vulnerabilities in the iOS ecosystem. At the Hexacon offensive security conference in Paris, Ivan Krstic, the company’s vice pres...
40,000 iPhones stolen and shipped to Asia: London police arrest international gang
London police announced that Operation Echosteep has uncovered and dismantled a gang responsible for mass iPhone thefts. Investigators estimate the group is responsible for 40% of all phone thefts in ...
Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Attack: Clop Exploits CVE-2025-61882
Last week, Oracle warned customers of a critical zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (CVE-2025-61882), which allows remote execution of arbitrary code without authentication. It has now bee...
I Want It All! ChatGPT Ready to Become an Operating System
When Nick Turley joined OpenAI in 2022 to lead the ChatGPT team, he was tasked with transforming enterprise research into a commercial product. He has accomplished this mission remarkably well: today,...
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Sophos analysts have discovered a complex malware operation by security experts that uses the popular messaging service WhatsApp to spread banking Trojans, targeting Brazilian banks and cryptocurrency...

A critical vulnerability has been identified in the AMD SEV-SNP hardware security architecture, impacting major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) . This flaw allows malicious hy...

Israeli company NSO Group, developer of the infamous Pegasus spyware , recently came under the control of American investors. A company spokesperson announced that the new funding amounts to tens of m...

Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , r...

The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by “we.” T...
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, pioneers of programmable computing
Dharma/Crysis: Overview and adversary tracking
Avoiding the fis-hack-erman’s hook (aka Detecting a Phishing email)

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, pioneers of programmable computing
Antonio Piovesan - October 4th, 2021
Author: Antonio Piovesan Pubblication date: 28/09/2021 Introduction - Age of machines Great Britain, middle decades of the 19th century, times of unprecedented engineering ambitions. Engineering, transportation, communications, architecture, science and...

Dharma/Crysis: Overview and adversary tracking
Emanuele De Lucia - September 17th, 2021
Author: Emanuele De Lucia Pubblication date: 17/09/2021 This report presents an overview about Dharma/Crysis ransomware. This piece of malware is often observed as late-stage payload in attacks against internet-facing systems,...

Avoiding the fis-hack-erman’s hook (aka Detecting a Phishing email)
Antonio Piovesan - August 22nd, 2021
Author: Antonio PiovesanPubblication Date: 09/08/2021 With the increase of ransomware infections - often instigated through phishing emails, it's very important/crucial to take proactive measures to help protect yourself and your...
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