Episode 489 of the Smashing Security podcast covers several recent incidents, linked mainly through show-note references. The headline topic is a supply-chain attack on Ledger hardware crypto wallets, with reports of backdoored devices and funds being drained. Ledger reportedly asked sellers across Asia to halt sales and published guidanc…
Symantec reports that the Russia-linked APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta), which the U.S. government links to the GRU, targeted organizations in two NATO member states. Victims were a naval shipbuilder, a manufacturer of military aircraft engines and a law enforcement agency (thehackernews.com, cyberscoop.com…
GreyNoise reports that 21 IP addresses in AS213438 (registered to ColocaTel Inc., Mahe, Seychelles) produced 1,856,167 of 2,753,274 global RDP Crawler sessions on April 7, 2026, or 67.4% of the worldwide total. Over April 5-7 the same fleet accounted for 49.7% of global RDP Crawler activity. All 21 IPs are geolocated to the Netherlands, w…
Censys observed a 71% drop in internet-exposed Danfoss StoreView control panels in France in three days after the October 11 cyber-attack on hundreds of French supermarkets. The attack targeted refrigeration controllers that Danfoss confirmed were mostly older models without security updates (AK-SM800, AK-SC355) or newer models on outdate…
The PHP security team released emergency fixes on October 21, 2026 for two critical core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, nicknamed PHP2Shell. Both are rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 and allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as the web worker account. They can also expose process memory that may hold credentials and API keys (…