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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Ransomware negotiator recruited by BlackCat ransomware gang pleads guilty to 2023 attacks, faces 20 years in prison

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The third co-conspirator pleads guilty, and now faces up to 20 years in prison.

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'Felony murder law does not require that a defendant pull the trigger': Ex-FBI chief calls for ransomware attackers to face homicide charges if attacks lead to deaths

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The FBI needs to "step up" in the fight against ransomware, says Cynthia Kaiser, former deputy assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.

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‘Big Game Hunters’: UK ransomware volume drops significantly 'but the reality is more alarming' – big orgs are being hit harder and with greater success

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Ransomware actors are moving away from spray-and-pray attacks and into more targeted campaigns.

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French government agency admits data breach as hacker alleges up to 19 million sensitive records stolen – breach may have exposed 'data from individual and professional accounts'

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A hacker is selling data apparently stolen from ANTS, as the agency confirms suffering a breach.

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Mythos and friends could be a 'net positive' for UK cyber security defenses but only if they're secured, says top cyber official

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Mozilla can attest to that after using Mythos to find 271 bugs in Firefox 150.

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'HACKED': Hacker defaces Seiko USA website and claims theft of 'entire customer database' – here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Seiko has not yet confirmed the incident and the data has not surfaced on the dark web.

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'Stop selling or sharing my personal information': Research finds that Big Tech could be tracking you even when you've opted out

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Explicit requests not to be tracked are being ignored, even in US states where such privacy matters are law.

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North Korea's Lazarus makes off with $290M crypto in Kelp DAO heist after siphoning funds using fraudulent transactions

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Lazarus Group tricked the system by taking control of some of the servers used to verify transactions

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'88% Confident 90% Misled': Government & critical infrastructure leaders fundamentally misunderstand the security of the apps they use

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Many decision-makers don't know what "encryption" means or what it protects from.

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Microsoft issues warning over Teams helpdesk impersonation attacks – hackers are 'blending into routine IT support activity' by abusing remote assistance access

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Crooks are impersonating IT and reaching out via Teams, only to be granted access and steal data.

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US security agency still using Mythos despite ban – government using new security tool despite Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' designation

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Despite trading blows with the company, US government is still using Anthropic's products, including the fabled Mythos Preview.

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Struggling to launch Teams? Microsoft recalls update causing failed startup and infinite loading loops – here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A service update was triggering an error in some Teams desktop clients, forcing Microsoft to revert the changes.

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NIST is cataloging so many vulnerabilities it can only assign severity scores to the highest priority threats

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The volume has almost tripled in five years, forcing NIST to change its MO.

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Watch out, hackers are abusing Apple account notifications to distribute malware, steal money and data

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Researchers found a new callback phishing campaign abusing Apple's email notification system.

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'We've identified a security incident': Vercel breach confirmed after hackers claim stolen data for sale online

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Cloud development platform confirms theft of "non-sensitive data" and says customers were already notified.

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'They mopped the floor with me and pulled every childish game they could': Disgruntled researcher releases second major Windows zero-day — claims Microsoft 'would ruin my life, and they did'

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Chaotic Eclipse is at it again, this time releasing a zero-day for Microsoft Defender.

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'As threats evolve, Gemini keeps our defenses one step ahead': Google claims its AI helped it block over 8.3 billion malicious ads in 2025

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Google is fighting AI-powered ad fraud, with AI-powered ad fraud prevention.

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Cisco tells Webex users to patch critical security flaws immediately, as experts find its Wi-Fi boxes may be filling their disks with undeletable data every day

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Four critical flaws were recently patched, and some AP versions are creating undeletable, growing files.

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Microsoft experts warn North Korean attackers target macOS users with 'a highly reliable infection chain' to steal passwords, financial data and more — here's how to stay safe

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A Lazarus spinoff is stirring trouble among companies, stealing crypto through fake jobs, Microsoft warns.

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Europol launches Operation PowerOFF — warns 75,000 DDoS users and takes down 53 domains

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Four people were arrested as Europol and numerous national police agencies join forces to tackle DDoS attacks.

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Many are still leaving the door open': Security experts warn FIFA World Cup partners could be putting customers at risk of email attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Some World Cup partners are not actively protecting their domain name with the strongest DMARC policy.

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'Anyone with $10 could have walked straight through': Report warns this legit-looking software is actually antivirus-killing adware

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Annoying adware turned out to be a piece of malware capable of killing antivirus software.

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An ancient Microsoft Excel security flaw could let hackers hijack your entire system, so patch now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

CISA is warning about ongoing exploitation of a 2008 bug in multiple versions of Excel.

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'This is not a traditional coding error': Experts flag potentially critical security issues at the heart of Anthropic's MCP, exposes 150 million downloads and thousands of servers to complete takeover

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Anthropic sees no issues - and says the tools are working as intended.

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Millions of hotel goers may have been exposed after hackers steal data and leak it on Telegram

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Hundreds of accounts were compromised and used to pull sensitive data on millions of peope.

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