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

Data Breach

'An unauthorized actor accessed certain Vimeo user and customer data': Vimeo confirms security incident, blames attack on Anodot breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Vimeo did not say how many people were affected, but confirmed that payment data is secure.

Ransomware

'VECT is being marketed as ransomware...but it functions as a data destruction tool': Experts warn this "broken" ransomware is now acting as a data wiper, so protect your files now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

New ransomware variant destroys everything bigger than 128kb, making retrieval without a backup impossible.

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'The attacker completed in under five minutes': Experts warn of North Korea-linked campaign using fake Zoom meetings to target crypto execs

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Highly sophisticated scam will leave you questioning what's real while hackers steal your crypto.

Robinhood trading app

Hackers exploit Robinhood account creation tool to launch worrying phishing scam

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The vulnerability has since been fixed and the malicious landing page is offline.

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Medtronic says ShinyHunters hackers stole around 9 million medical records in latest attack

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Medtronic was removed from ShinyHunters' data leak site.

GitHub Webpage

Top open source PyPI package with over 1 million downloads each month hacked to send out malware

By Sead Fadilpašić published

This was not a case of stolen credentials, but rather of vulnerability exploitation.

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CheckMarx admits it was hit by major cyberattack that saw data leaked onto Dark Web

By Sead Fadilpašić published

CheckMarx confirms March 2026 attack did result in data theft.

'Unfortunately, it needs to be said: Do not send a text to confirm you are human': Experts reveal how fake CAPTCHAs are driving a global SMS scam campaign

By Sead Fadilpašić published

CAPTCHAs asking you to send an SMS are actually a scam that can cost you big time.

Cybersecurity

New 'Firestarter' malware flames on in spite of Cisco firewall updates and security patches

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Security pros are warning about custom malware targeting Cisco firewalls, and surviving upgrades and reboots.

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Utility giant Itron confirms cyberattack, says internal systems were accessed

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Data was most likely not tampered with, although Itron's investigation is still ongoing.

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'They don't care': ShinyHunters strike again as hackers claim to have pinched 7.5 million Carnival cruise emails

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The biggest cruise company in the world has suffered a supply chain attack after one of its subsidiaries got hit.

Security

'An interesting evolution in tactics': Google security experts flag new cyber scam which abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Hackers first create a problem then try to "solve it" by pretending to be IT helpdesk.

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CISA puts US government agencies on two-week deadline to patch Microsoft Defender BlueHammer zero-day exploit

By Sead Fadilpašić published

BlueHammer was disclosed in early April, together with two additional bugs, by a disgruntled researcher.

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Passkeys

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

By Sead Fadilpašić published

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

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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