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

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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PHP releases emergency fixes as some of the world's biggest websites say they were targeted by hackers

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

PHP urges organizations to deploy the fixes immediately, as threat actors start abusing the php2shell bug

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Website admins across the world bracing for impact following major PHP flaw reveal

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

PHP notifies the community of two critical RCE flaws, says patch is coming imminently.

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State Bank of India reports cyberattack — thousands of customer records affected, here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Someone leaked thousands of user records online, including many belonging to SBI customers.

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AI 'antidetect' browsers are making scams, fraud, and influence operations harder to spot

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Browsers designed to help agencies are being abused to launch scam campaigns at scale.

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DeepSeek AI tools banned from US government agency systems as rift with China grows

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

DeepSeek was labeled as carrying "multiple threat vectors".

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Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in attack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

It seems the goal was to establish persistence and possibly steal money down the line.

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Microsoft admits 'frontier models can't be trusted', unveils new security tools to treat AI agents as insider threats

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Say hi to your new Guardian Agent, keeping you safe from Agentic Insiders.

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Watch out — these are the phishing scams experts say are most likely to catch your workers out

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

New tech announcements, gifts, and insurance claims work best, Kaspersky found.

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US federal court work hit after BAE Systems cyberattack affects bankruptcy court systems

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The incident halted the BNC’s production and distribution of bankruptcy notices for bankruptcy courts.

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Whopper of a data breach sees Burger King Japan expose over 11 million customer records

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The leaked records belonged mostly to Burger King mobile app users.

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Just when we thought targeted ads couldn't get any worse, these were found serving malware

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Al Jazeera journalists were infected, but the number of victims could be a lot bigger.

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D-Link, Ubiquiti devices hijacked by hackers to plunder stolen bandwidth

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Someone hacked network-attached devices to install... legitimate software? For nefarious purposes, still.

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Fake calendar invites hit thousands of businesses in Microsoft credential phishing campaign

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hundreds of thousands of spam emails are carrying .ics attachments or calendar invites.

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Experts uncover bizarre new malware that spooks users with jump scares and screams

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

As if Windows 11 wasn't scary enough on its own.

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Bank of America had to hire 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws spotted by Anthropic Mythos

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Bank also had to spent more than a hundred million dollars, but it's confident the spending will decrease in time.

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'What appears to be a simple scam message is often the visible end of a much larger transnational cybercriminal operation': Microsoft leads global takedown of phishing network which sent over a billion messages

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

An investigation into a phishing campaign led researchers to a sprawling underground store for stolen accounts and criminal activity.

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Security flaws found in top open source AI gateway — LiteLLM vulnerabilties could affect millions of users

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

A patch has been made available, so make sure to apply it before someone racks up a big AI bill.

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'123456' password was the only thing standing between hacker and data of 8.8 million people

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Three accounts were using the same weak password, allowing a threat actor to rummage through files for ten days.

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Massive data leak from AI development company exposes almost 14 million records — Vibetech collected data from different breaches and accidentally made them accessible online

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The company has been harvesting data from different leaks, likely for research purposes.

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Trying to change your browser? It might be harder than you think, based on one simple thing

By Sead Fadilpašić Last updated

Mozilla says Microsoft is abusing its dominant position wherever it can, including the US, UK, and India.

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