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- June 27th, 2025 - (Posted in Cybercrime and Darknet)
An unusual example of malicious code has been discovered in a real computing environment, which for the first time recorded an attempt to attack not classical defense mechanisms, but directly artificial intelligence systems. We are talking about the prompt injection technique, i.e. the introduction of hidden instructions capable of compromising...
Cybercrime and Darknet

Warning! WinRAR: Critical Vulnerability That Could Run Malware

WinRAR developers have fixed a Directory Traversal vulnerability, which has been assigned the identifier CVE-2025-6218. Under certain circumstances, this bug allowed malware to be executed after the archive was extracted. The vulnerability received a score of 7.8 on the CVSS

Cybersecurity, from NIS2 to the Cyber Resilience Act: Fortinet guides companies in compliance with the new regulatory landscape

- June 27th, 2025

By Aldo Di Mattia, Director of Specialized Systems Engineering and Cybersecurity Advisor Italy and Malta at Fortinet After years of defining new regulatory strategies, the regulatory landscape, particularly in Europe,...

  

Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Hundreds of Brother and Other Printers

- June 27th, 2025

Hundreds of printer models from Brother and other manufacturers (Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minolta) have been found to be vulnerable to serious vulnerabilities discovered by researchers at Rapid7. For...

  

Pope warns: “AI is not the devil, but it can become one without ethics”

- June 27th, 2025

The head of the Catholic Churchhas expressed concern about the way today's children and adolescents interact with digital technologies. In his viewthe abundance of information available through neural networks and...

  

Microsoft 365 Under Attack: How Hackers Use Direct Send to Send Phishing Emails

- June 27th, 2025

A sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted over 70 organizations by exploiting Microsoft 365's Direct Send feature. The campaign, which began in May 2025 and has shown steady activity over the...

  

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