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

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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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By Sead Fadilpašić published

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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.

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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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By Sead Fadilpašić published

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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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Another major US healthcare organization has been hacked, with potentially major consequences

By Sead Fadilpašić published

American Associated Pharmacies has not yet confirmed the attack, but the hackers claim it paid up.

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Beware — that dream job offer could be malware sent by Iranian hackers

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Iranians are trying to pull off a "Lazarus", offering fake jobs to high-profile targets.

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D-Link devices are already being attacked after the company said it would no longer support them

By Sead Fadilpašić published

End-of-life devices with critical flaws are already being attacked, days after the vuln was found

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Data broker has database of over 100 million people swiped and put up for sale online

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The data was public to begin with, but the size of the cache is still alarming.

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GitHub users targeted by dangerous new phishing threat

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Golssue tool targets GitHub users specifically, allowing crooks to extract emails in bulk.

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US grocery stores hit by cybersecurity outage at food giant

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Many details about the incident are still unknown at this time.

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North Korean hackers target macOS users with Flutter malware

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Malware is easier to hide in Flutter-built apps for macOS, experts claim.

D-Link says it won't patch 60,000 older modems, as they're not worth saving

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The D-Link modems are carrying critical flaws that allow for device takeover.

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US government identifies hackers who stole 50 billion AT&T records in Snowflake hack

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Two individuals stand accused of major crimes, including computer hacking and wire fraud schemes.

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Microsoft says unexpected Windows Server 2025 automatic upgrades were due to faulty third-party tools

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Some businesses were surprised to see an unwanted upgrade to Windows Server 2025.

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