Articles by Pierluigi Paganini
Crooks impersonate LastPass in campaign to harvest master passwords
LastPass warned users about an active phishing campaign that began around January 19, 2026. Attackers impersonate the service withοΏ½...
Access broker caught: Jordanian pleads guilty to hacking 50 companies
A Jordanian national Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti (40), living in Georgia, pleaded guilty in a US court to acting as an access bοΏ½...
Telegram-based illicit billionaire marketplace Tudou Guarantee stopped transactions
Blockchain cybersecurity firm Elliptic reports that Tudou Guarantee, a major Telegram-based illicit marketplace inοΏ½...
The cybercriminal behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack has been released from prison early thanks to Trumps 2018 First Step Act
Ilya Lichtenstein (38), convicted for the hack of the cryptocurrency stock exοΏ½...
Two U.S. cybersecurity professionals plead guilty in BlackCat/Alphv ransomware case
The U.S. cybersecurity professionals Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin pleaded guilty to charges tied to their roles οΏ½...
Trust Wallet confirms second Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack, $8.5M in crypto stolen
Trust Wallet linked a second Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack to its Chrome extension hack, which resulted in the thοΏ½...
Stolen LastPass backups enable crypto theft through 2025
The blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs warns that encrypted vault backups stolen in the 2022 LastPass breach are still being cracked usingοΏ½...
Trust Wallet warns users to update Chrome extension after $7M security loss
Trust Wallet warned users to update its Google Chrome extension after a security incident that resulted in about $7 millioοΏ½...
New EtherRAT backdoor surfaces in React2Shell attacks tied to North Korea
North Korealinked threat actors are likely exploiting the new critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to deploy a previouοΏ½...
FinCEN data shows $4.5B in ransomware payments, record spike in 2023
FinCEN analyzed ransomware trends using Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reports filed from January 2022 to February 2025. During this periοΏ½...
