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

China
Chinese hackers build PHP2SHELL exploit, use it to root 25 servers, breach US government-affiliated firewalls

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Palo Alto Networks firewalls running outdated OS seem to be the target, as Chinese hackers chain PHP2Shell to Fragnesia for the campaign.

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Binance hit by 'largest crypto theft on record' as North Korean hackers steal $6.3bn in just 20 minutes

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Lazarus is breaking its own records year after year but Binance says user funds are SAFU.

Data leak
Massive GovTech breach leaks 42 million documents — including thousands packed with personal information

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A large database full of personal information was discovered and locked down.

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Best Scraper API (best web scraping API) of 2026

By Sead Fadilpašić last updated

Simplify market research, lead generation, or competitor analysis with these great scraper APIs.

Claude
A new cybercrime campaign uses fake AI apps with real-sounding names to infect people curious to try the newest tools

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Experts warn ChatGPT and Claude are once again being spoofed to trick victims into installing a cryptocurrency miner.

cctv
Hackers are breaking into company networks via hacked CCTV camera software

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Companies urged to treat cameras and their management platforms as potential entry points and secure them better.

FBI
FBI leads action to shut down Virtualine bulletproof service linked to major cybercrime activity

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Virtualine was hosting illegal forums and helping launder stolen cryptocurrency.

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Data breach at Sony ISP subsidiary exposes 2.5 million customer records as Japan hit with another major cyberattack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hackers are gunning for Japan's ISPs - and this time it's Sony's turn.

A security flaw in these widely used barcode scanners could open up warehouses and stores to cyberattack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A simple barcode scanner could be the gateway to a large-scale cyberattack, Kaspersky is warning.

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Most data centers and servers on the planet could be vulnerable to dangerous UEFI firmware flaw — here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A 9.5/10 flaw will take months to fully remediate, so stay on your guard.

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AI startup claims it hacked Anthropic in 12 hours, gains access to employee details and internal messages

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Agents found a way in through third-party business software, but Anthropic is saying its bug bounty rules were broken.

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Japanese internet giant GMO tells customers to shut down and disconnect PCs from the internet following data breach and ransomware threat

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hackers threatened to install ransomware on user devices, but they never did.

Microsoft Teams
Watch out — that Microsoft Teams chat might be hackers impersonating your IT support

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Fake IT support pushes victims into granting hands-on access via remote management tools.

Cybersecurity
Microsoft and others scramble to patch 'HTTP2Shell' flaw which could be the next PHP-level issue — Node.js problem may also affect millions of sites

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

An RCE flaw was found in Brotli, a Google-built open source data compression algorithm.

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Critical Microsoft Authenticator flaw let malicious Android apps steal access to your precious accounts

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Authenticator was granting session tokens left and right, but the bug has now been fixed.

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Over 525,000 hit in massive University of Copenhagen data breach

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Even some PIN codes were stolen, forcing the University to reset them.

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Rogue AI agent engages 'Skynet mode' to search the internet for exposed LLMs to hijack and run malware attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Malicious AI agent was found recruiting other agents for a cryptomining operation as well as data and credential theft.

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This abandoned torrent app could have exposed millions of devices to cyberattack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A malicious update could infect millions of devices without users ever knowing.

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AI agents tricked by a rogue downloads file into running dangerous malware

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

AI agents will read anything found in the AGENTS.md file, even if that file is downloaded from the internet.

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Experts reveal another major PHP2Shell bug — and it's not getting an emergency patch this time

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The bug can trigger remote code execution but only under certain, "unlikely" conditions.

PHP security issues could also threaten your NAS device — but not every vendor is able to patch just yet

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The php2shell flaw affects more than just websites and web apps and some of these manufacturers were apparently caught off guard.

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AWS says hackers tried to exploit PHP security issues days before fix — as Cloudflare CEO says it saw a huge rise in targeted attack attempts

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

There have been millions of attempts to target PHP flaws following disclosure of major vulnerabilities.

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Capcom data breach confirmed — around 11.7 million accounts thought to have been affected

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Threat actors broke into one of Capcom's services and even tried to change user passwords.

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Claude flags nearly 500 worrying open source security issues — C, Java, and Python code all at risk as one flaw wasn't spotted for 21 years

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hunting for individual vulnerabilities will get us nowhere, Anthropic argues. Instead, businesses should reduce accessible code.

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Security breach at AI aggregator exposes over 18 million files, including some very embarrassing chat records

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

An AI aggregator kept an open database unprotected on the internet containing personally identifiable information and some embarassing chat logs.

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