Security Affairs newsletter Round 561 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2026

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DOJ releases details alleged talented hacker working for Jeffrey Epstein

Cyberattacks Disrupt Communications at Wind, Solar, and Heat Facilities in Poland

SmarterTools patches critical SmarterMail flaw allowing code execution

U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Ivanti EPMM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Empire Market co-founder faces 10 years to life after guilty plea

SolarWinds addressed four critical Web Help Desk flaws

Google targets IPIDEA in crackdown on global residential proxy networks

Nation-state and criminal actors leverage WinRAR flaw in attacks

OpenSSL issued security updates to fix 12 flaws, including Remote Code Execution

U.S. CISA adds a flaw in multiple Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Fortinet patches actively exploited FortiOS SSO auth bypass (CVE-2026-24858)

PackageGate bugs let attackers bypass protections in NPM, PNPM, VLT, and Bun

WhatsApp rolls out Strict Account settings to strengthen protection for high-risk users

Shadowserver finds 6,000+ likely vulnerable SmarterMail servers exposed online

U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Office, GNU InetUtils, SmarterTools SmarterMail, and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Amnesia RAT deployed in multi-stage phishing attacks against Russian users

Dormakaba flaws allow to access major organizations’ doors

Emergency Microsoft update fixes in-the-wild Office zero-day

ShinyHunters claims 2 Million Crunchbase records; company confirms breach

Energy sector targeted in multi-stage phishing and BEC campaign using…