Cristian Luțic
Cristian Luțic is a cybersecurity professional and Editor-in-Chief of iSec.News, with experience in security enablement, risk analysis, and vulnerability reporting. As Editor-in-Chief, he is responsible for editorial standards, source verification, and publication oversight at iSec News.
From professional sports to cybersecurity, his career path may have been unconventional, but it has been driven by the same core values: discipline, perseverance, and a passion for doing meaningful, impactful work.
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French childcare payroll service reports data breach affecting up to 1.2 million people
Pajemploi said a cyberattack detected on November 14 may have exposed personal data for up to 1.2 million employees using its service, including names, birthplaces, addresses and social security numbers; the agency said IBANs, emails and phone numbers were not accessed and affected individuals will be notified.
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Meta gives researchers a WhatsApp Research Proxy and tightens anti-scraping protections
Meta has given selected bug bounty researchers access to a WhatsApp Research Proxy and launched a pilot to study platform abuse, while adding anti‑scraping protections after a public report showed how contact discovery could be abused to enumerate accounts at scale. Meta also patched a Unity‑related vulnerability affecting Quest devices and said it has paid…
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Researchers detail use of Tuoni C2 in attack on U.S. real-estate firm
Researchers said attackers used the Tuoni C2 framework in a mid-October 2025 intrusion attempt against a U.S. real-estate firm, employing social engineering, PowerShell downloaders, BMP steganography and in-memory execution; the campaign was detected and blocked.
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Mandiant ties UNC1549 to long-running campaign using TWOSTROKE and DEEPROOT against aerospace and defence
Google-owned Mandiant linked a cluster it tracks as UNC1549 to a campaign from late 2023 through 2025 in which suspected Iranian espionage actors used backdoors including TWOSTROKE and DEEPROOT to target aerospace, aviation and defence organisations by exploiting third-party credentials, VDI breakouts and targeted phishing.
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Cloudflare investigates global outage causing widespread 500 errors
Cloudflare is investigating a global outage that caused widespread 500 errors and dashboard/API failures; multiple European nodes and tens of thousands of user reports were affected while Cloudflare works on mitigation and some services show signs of recovery.
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Google issues Chrome security update for actively exploited V8 bug
Google released Chrome updates to fix two V8 type confusion vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-13223 which is being actively exploited; users should update to the listed Chrome versions and other Chromium-based browser vendors should apply fixes when available.
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Malicious npm packages use Adspect redirects and fingerprinting to cloak crypto scams
Seven npm packages published under the name ‘dino_reborn’ used Adspect redirects and browser fingerprinting to route real visitors to fake cryptocurrency CAPTCHA scams while showing decoys to likely researchers, Socket researchers found.
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Princeton University discloses November 10 database breach affecting alumni and donors
Princeton University said a database was compromised on November 10 after a phishing attack on an employee, exposing names, contact details and biographical information of alumni, donors, students and staff; the university said the database did not generally contain Social Security numbers, passwords or financial information and has blocked the attackers’ access.
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Researchers: ClickFix social‑engineering used to deliver Amatera stealer and NetSupport RAT
Researchers say operators are using ClickFix social‑engineering to install the Amatera stealer and, conditionally, NetSupport RAT; eSentire and other vendors have published analyses and indicators tied to multiple concurrent phishing campaigns.
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Microsoft: Aisuru botnet launched 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack against Azure
Microsoft said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.72 Tbps UDP flood against a public Azure IP in Australia from over 500,000 IPs, reaching nearly 3.64 billion packets per second; researchers and firms including Qi’anxin and Cloudflare have linked Aisuru to multiple large-scale DDoS campaigns that exploit vulnerable IoT devices and routers.
