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Pierluigi Paganini

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Founder of Security Affairs, CYBHORUS, and Cybaze. Director of the Cybersecurity Observatory at Unipegaso, Ethical Hacker, Security Evangelist, Security Analyst
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AI Runs the Hack: Chinese Actor Automates Cyberattacks With DeepSeek

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By Pierluigi Paganini
| securityaffairs.com
Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2026 Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 got a front-row seat to something they’d only theorized about before: an AI system running an actual hacking campaign with almost no human steering it. The researchers spotted a Chinese-speaking actor, going by the handles knaithe and KnYuan, who wired DeepSeek into an open-source framework called Hermes Agent and let it hunt for vulnerable targets, find exploit code, and launch attacks on its own.
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River Bank obtained assurances from the attackers that the stolen data in the June attack was deleted

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By Pierluigi Paganini
| securityaffairs.com
Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2026 River Financial Corporation, the parent company of River Bank & Trust, says hackers deleted data stolen during a ransomware attack that hit parts of its server environment in June. The breach began on June 16 and was detected three days later, when the company found ransomware had been deployed on affected systems. While the investigation is still ongoing, the bank says it has received confirmation that the exfiltrated data was deleted.
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PNLD Confirms Data Breach Affecting UK Police and Justice Staff

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By Pierluigi Paganini
| securityaffairs.com
Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2026 The Police National Legal Database (PNLD), the legal reference system used by all 43 Home Office police forces in England and Wales, confirmed that a data breach exposed the contact details of police officers, staff, and criminal justice professionals and published them on the dark web. The breach also hit Ask the Police, a public Q&A service hosted on the same platform. The National Crime Agency is involved in the investigation.
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