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

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Dutch cosmetic powerhouse Rituals confirms breach and stolen data from 'My Rituals' membership database

By Sead Fadilpašić published 24 April 26

A yet undisclosed number of customers were affected, losing names, emails, and postal addresses.

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China-nexus cyber actors' are turning routers and IoT infrastructure into covert botnets 'at scale' – NCSC, Five Eyes, and others warn of campaign involving Typhoon-designated groups

By Sead Fadilpašić published 24 April 26

The botnets are used to hide locations and launch Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

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This Firefox vulnerability may have been tracking all your private Tor identities – even in Private Mode

By Sead Fadilpašić published 24 April 26

Researchers found a bug where websites could create a hidden ID and track users even in Private Mode.

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Health data from UK Biobank spotted for sale in China – Government confirms medical info from 500,000 participants involved

By Sead Fadilpašić published 24 April 26

Legitimate researchers seem to have abused their access to try and sell the files.

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Australia joins countries trialing Claude Mythos 'to make sure we are aware of emerging vulnerabilities'

By Sead Fadilpašić published 23 April 26

The country is "working with" Anthropic and other similar software providers, a spokesperson said.

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'An AI-led defense strategy that's overseen by humans': Google is introducing more agents to its 'full AI stack' to allow AI security at 'infinite scale'

By Sead Fadilpašić published 23 April 26

Three new agents introduced at Google Cloud Next, which are soon to be released.

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Vercel identifies more accounts 'with evidence of prior compromise' exposed during security incident

By Sead Fadilpašić published 23 April 26

The compromise was bigger than initially thought, and it seems some accounts were broken into even before that.

ShinyHunters exposes data on Mytheresa, Zara, Carnival, 7-Eleven – over 40 organizations tied up in new data trove which will stay up 'indefinitely'

By Sead Fadilpašić published 23 April 26

Some companies did not pay the ransom demand, and ShinyHunters responded by leaking the stolen files.

UK security agency officially declares passkeys superior to passwords – passkeys should be the 'first choice' for authentication

By Sead Fadilpašić published 23 April 26

Passkeys have come a long way in just four years and are now being recommended as the number one authentication method.

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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 22 April 26

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

'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 22 April 26

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 22 April 26

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

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 22 April 26

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 22 April 26

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 21 April 26

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 21 April 26

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

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published 21 April 26

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 21 April 26

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 21 April 26

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