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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A bizarre new malware campaign hacks your printer and forces it to print out ransomware demands

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Researchers detail two incidents in Latin America in which system misconfigurations resulted in ransomware attacks.

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Apple finally patches Hide My Email security flaw — a year after it was first discovered

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A bug that was first discovered in June 2025 was finally fixed in early July 2026.

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Chick-fil-A reveals data breach — customers warned hackers may have accessed their account info

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Thousands of users in Texas alone had their data compromised and the company is now sending out notifications.

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Rental giant Carla leaks user names, emails, and phone numbers ahead of summer holiday break

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Another day, another misconfigured database discovered online.

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OpenAI says its models escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

New OpenAI models did whatever it took to achieve their goal - including exploiting zero-days.

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Experts warn hackers could shut down entire power grids by hijacking cloud accounts

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

AI training can create spikes in energy consumption, and these can cause all sorts of harm to a power grid.

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Watch out - that Microsoft Calendar invite dated 2050 could be hiding stolen files and worse

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Check your calendars for entries far into the future - especially if you're an Israeli entity.

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Estée Lauder says it was hit by data breach caused by Oracle E-Business issue

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The breach happened in August 2025, but was only spotted recently by Estée Lauder.

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Experts warn millions of WordPress websites could be at risk following reveal of worrying bugs

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hackers are chaining together two newly discovered flaws to achieve remote code execution.

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Top AI coding agents can be easy victims to sandbox escapes, showing they aren't as secure as they claim to be

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

What if a host component outside the sandbox reads AI coding agents' output? And what if that output is manipulated?

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'This one was different from anything we had handled before': Hugging Face confirms it was hit by cyberattack powered by an AI agent

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

There's a new twist to the old code injection attack, and this one comes with AI seasoning.

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Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol says thousands of user accounts hit in cyberattack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The Ecopetrol attackers demanded a ransom payment but did not deploy an encryptor.

Ransomware attacks hit SMBs harder than ever as cybercrime gang rivalry heats up

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Qilin and The Gentlemen are going at it, at the expense of SMBs facing more attacks than ever.

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Ernst & Young reveals data breach following hack on support system

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Someone pulled sensitive customer data from EY's servers, but the data is yet to surface anywhere.

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'macOS users may face real, sophisticated threats that require neither exploits nor any elevated access to succeed': ClickLock Stealer tries to trick Apple users into revealing their passwords

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

ClickLock bores its victims into complying and then steals all sorts of data.

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Dangerous new GoSerpent malware is apparently on the hunt for government secrets

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The malware has been hiding in plain sight for half a decade, stealing all sorts of valuable secrets.

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Claude can now enter all your passwords for you - if you give it permission

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

1Password partnership will mean Claude will never see the secrets or load them into its own memory.

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Coca-Cola shuts down Fairlife dairy production lines following ransomware attack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Coca-Cola confirms ransomware attack on Fairlife in an 8-K form filed with the SEC.

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Teenage TfL hackers sentenced to years in prison following Scattered Spider attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Two young men pleaded guilty to hacking into Transport for London in 2024 and were given long prison sentences.

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Microsoft nemesis returns with another zero-day PoC — but is 'LegacyHive' as nasty as expected?

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Chaotic Eclipse is back with a new Windows 11 zero-day called LegacyHive.

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Russian hacker turns Gemini CLI into a hacking agent, creates small-scale botnet

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The hacker told the AI he was an authorized pentester - and the AI believed him.

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Thousands of US military beneficiaries have data breached following TRICARE cyberattack — DoD Benefits Numbers and some Social Security numbers leaked

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

TriWest suffers an attack and loses TRICARE data on some 12,000 people.

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Zoom patches critical security flaw which could have let hackers hijack accounts

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Zoom finds improper input validation bug, but fortunately sees no evidence of abuse.

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KFC may be forced to shut some stores following cyberattack at key supplier

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Nichirei Co confirmed shutting parts of its infrastructure offline to contain a cyberincident which could affect KFC Japan stores.

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Experts flag new scam targeting fans seeking tickets for Celine Dion concerts

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Multiple scams targeting Celine Dion fans have already surfaced - it looks like this scam will go on (and on).

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