Articles by 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

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published 20 April 26

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 20 April 26

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 20 April 26

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

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published 20 April 26

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 17 April 26

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 17 April 26

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

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 17 April 26

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

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 17 April 26

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 17 April 26

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 16 April 26

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 16 April 26

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

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published 16 April 26

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

'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 16 April 26

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

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published 16 April 26

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

WordPress websites under attack — expert report says dozens of plugins hijacked to target thousands of sites

By Sead Fadilpašić published 15 April 26

A malicious actor found a struggling WordPress plugin company, bought it, and introduced malware to each product.

'We are currently being extorted' — crypto giant Kraken says it is facing extortion attack, here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published 15 April 26

The identity of the attackers isn't known, but this seems to have been an inside job.

'This activity appears to be part of a broader issue': education company McGraw Hill becomes latest to see its Salesforce data hacked

By Sead Fadilpašić published 15 April 26

ShinyHunters strikes again, claiming to have stolen plenty of personally identifiable information.

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Google Chrome users beware — experts warn over 100 Web Store extensions found stealing user data from thousands of accounts

By Sead Fadilpašić published 15 April 26

All extensions seem to have been made by a single actor, possibly of Russian origin.

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'Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense': OpenAI reveals its Mythos rival, designed for cybersecurity pros to spot the next level of attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić published 15 April 26

As Mythos steals the limelight, OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.4-Cyber and is teasing even better models down the line.