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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'Phishing campaigns continue to improve sophistication and refinement': Microsoft flags major 'sophisticated' phishing campaign targeting 35,000 users across 26 countries

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The goal is to steal Microsoft credentials and bypass MFA, the company says.

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Canvas maker Instructure reveals data breach — confirms user personal information leaked

By Sead Fadilpašić published

ShinyHunters claims Instructure attack, says nearly 9,000 schools worldwide affected.

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Experts warn Amazon's Simple Email Service is being abused to launch 'massive volume' of phishing attacks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Hackers are stealing access to legitimate AWS tools and using them to launch phishing campaigns.

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Some Ubuntu services are still down following outages after DDoS attack

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Users reported being unable to install or update Ubuntu for several days following incident.

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Trellix confirms data breach after hack of 'a portion' of its source code

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Key details are still missing, but Trellix says it found no evidence of source code release or distribution process being affected.

Cristiano Ronaldo Al Nassr

Is this 'the largest breach in football history'? Hackers allegedly breach Cristiano Ronaldo's Saudi team and AFC governing body, leak passports, contracts, and emails online

By Sead Fadilpašić published

More than 150,000 people allegedly affected, including tens of thousands of professional athletes.

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'This campaign works because it feels ordinary': Experts reveal how hackers use fake DHL messages to lure in victims

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Forcepoint uncovers new phishing campaign using DHL assets, and even found where the passwords are being sent to.

Cloud, networking and internet

'The challenge is no longer identifying bots. It’s understanding what the bot, agent, or automation is doing': New report flags 40% of all internet traffic is now bad bots

By Sead Fadilpašić published

The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic.

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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