Sead Fadilpašić

Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.

Articles by: Sead Fadilpašić

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux has a worrying security flaw that may have gone unseen for a decade

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Five vulnerabilities, possibly introduced a decade ago, allow crooks to escalate privileges on vulnerable devices.

Cyberattack

Finance giant Finastra warns clients of potential data breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Finastra is looking into claims of breach made on a darknet forum.

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Hospital cyberattack exposes data on nearly a million patients

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Electronic patient record software account was compromised and used to steal sensitive data.

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Microsoft announces its own Black Hat-like hacking event with big rewards for AI security

By Ellen Jennings-Trace, Sead Fadilpašić published

Microsoft will offer top-level bug bounties at its own BlackHat-esque security event.

botnet

Dangerous global botnet fueling residential proxies is being hit in major crackdown

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Lumen and partners have disrupted the operations of the NSOCKS proxy and the underlying ngioweb botnet.

Ransomware

Zyxel VPN security flaw targeted by new ransomware attackers

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Small and medium-sized businesses in the US and Europe are being targeted using Zyxel VPN flaw.

Wix Studio

Website planning just got easier thanks to Wix Studio’s new tool

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Users are getting a powerful new way to streamline the website creation process, Wix claims.

Oracle

Oracle patches software security flaw which could have let hackers steal business files

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The flaw was being exploited in the wild, Oracle confirms, but we don't know by whom.

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D-Link is telling users to stop using these routers immediately, or face hacking

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A critical RCE flaw has been found in multiple D-Link routers that reached end-of-life.

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US space tech firm Maxar says employee personal data leaked in hack

By Sead Fadilpašić last updated

A hacker with a Hong Kong address lurked on Maxar servers for a week, stealing sensitive employee information.

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Update now — Fortinet Windows VPN hacked to steal user data

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A months-old vulnerability, with no fix in sight, is being abused to grab VPN passwords.

Malware worm

A major VMware vCenter Server security bug is now being exploited, so patch now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A bug that was patched twice since September is now being abused to execute malicious code, remotely.

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Ford says it is investigating claims thousands of workers have had data leaked online

By Sead Fadilpašić published

EnergyWeaponUser and IntelBroker strike again, but Ford is yet to confirm the incident.

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Phishing emails using SVG attachments to help get away with attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Weaponized SVG attachments are not being recognized as malicious, resulting in victims being served phishing scams and malware.

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GitHub projects are being targeted with malicious action in apparent attempt to frame this researcher

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A threat actor seems to be impersonating a security researcher in an attempt to defame them.

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Fake AI video generators are being used to hack Windows and macOS devices

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Crooks are advertising fake software hiding malware and infostealers.

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Twitch data breach leaves Amazon with major fine

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Amazon needs to pay Türkiye tens of thousands of dollars for failing to adequately protect user data.

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Top American mortgage lender AnnieMac says thousands of customers have had data stolen in breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Hackers stole AnnieMac customer names and social security numbers.

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Millions of WordPress sites could be at risk from "one of the most serious" plugin flaws ever found

By Sead Fadilpašić published

WordPress users urged to double-check their websites following update to worrrying security flaw.

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Thousands of web domains hijacked in "sitting ducks" attack

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A relatively unknown attack method is leaving thousands of websites compromised.

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CISA flags two more major Palo Alto security issues, so patch now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

CISA adds two more Palo Alto Networks Expedition flaws to KEV, and urges users to patch.

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Children's shoemaker Start-Rite confirms major security incident, full customer details leaked

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A misconfiguration on permissions leaked sensitive data on millions of Start-Rite customers.

Google Chrome

A clever new infostealer malware is able to easily bypass Google Chrome cookie encryption

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Google’s Application-Bound encryption is broken once again.

Data leak

Millions of sensitive data records exposed online due to settings fault with this top Microsoft tool

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A misconfiguration on permissions leaked sensitive data on millions of people.

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This devious new malware is going after macOS users with a whole barrel of tricks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

North Korean hackers are apparently experimenting with extended attributes on macOS to hide malware.

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