Krebs on Security
MARCH 27, 2025
Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. The real website of the Ukrainian paramilitary group “Freedom of Russia” legion.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 26, 2025
Cloudflare has a new feature —available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them into a “maze” of realistic-looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the crawler’s computing resources. The approach is a notable shift from the standard block-and-defend strategy used by most website protection services.
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Krebs on Security
MARCH 11, 2025
Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems, including fixes for a whopping six zero-day vulnerabilities that are already seeing active exploitation. Two of the zero-day flaws include CVE-2025-24991 and CVE-2025-24993 , both vulnerabilities in NTFS , the default file system for Windows and Windows Server.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 11, 2025
Designing the first logo for Have I Been Pwned was easy: I took a SQL injection pattern, wrote "have i been pwned?" after it and then, just to give it a touch of class, put a rectangle with rounded corners around it: Job done! I mean really, what more did I need for a pet project with a stupid name that would likely only add to the litany of failed nerdy ideas I'd had before that?
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Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 25, 2025
The annual pilgrimage to San Francisco for RSA Conference is fast approachingand the ramp-up has officially begun. In the latest episode of Bospars Politely Pushy podcast, Last Watchdog Editor-in-Chief Byron V. Acohido joins DigiCerts Christina Knittel and ConnectSafely.orgs Larry Magid for a spirited roundtable on how to get the most out of RSAC 2025.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 31, 2025
The internet is filled with falsehoods. Were forever investigating new scams here at Malwarebytes, and so we get how hard it is to know whator whoto trust online. Theres the scam that takes advantage of grieving people and tricks them into paying for a funeral live stream. Theres the fake CAPTCHA that hijacks clipboards and tricks users into installing malware.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 20, 2025
This is serious : A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack, which originally targeted the widely used tj-actions/changed-files utility, is now believed to have originated from an earlier breach of the reviewdog/action-setup@v1 GitHub Action, according to a report. […] CISA confirmed the vulnerability has been patched in version 46.0.1.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 14, 2025
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ ClickFix ,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 3, 2025
I think I've finally caught my breath after dealing with those 23 billion rows of stealer logs last week. That was a bit intense, as is usually the way after any large incident goes into HIBP. But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with an overtly long blog post explaining them and the conflation of which services needed a subscription versus which were easily accessible by anyone made for a very intense last 6 days.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 28, 2025
Palo Alto, Calif., Mar 28, 2025, CyberNewswire — From WannaCry to the MGM Resorts Hack, ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyberthreats to plague enterprises. Chainalysis estimates that corporations spend nearly $1 billion dollars on ransom each year, but the greater cost often comes from the reputational damage and operational disruption caused by the attack.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Adam Shostack
MARCH 20, 2025
A group of us have urged HHS to require better handling of security reports A group of us have urged HHS to require that health care providers to act on (and facilitate reporting of) security issues by good faith cybersecurity researchers. The core of what we recommend is that HHS should require cooperation with Good Faith researchers. All regulated entities should be required to enable people to report security issues in a way thats easy to discover and aligned with standards.
Digital Shadows
MARCH 17, 2025
Editors note: This report was authored by Gautham Ashok & Alexa Feminella. Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. VPN infrastructure has become an adversary focal point, blending cybercriminal tactics with state-sponsored espionage in hybrid operations.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 14, 2025
There is a new botnet that is infecting TP-Link routers: The botnet can lead to command injection which then makes remote code execution (RCE) possible so that the malware can spread itself across the internet automatically. This high severity security flaw (tracked as CVE-2023-1389 ) has also been used to spread other malware families as far back as April 2023 when it was used in the Mirai botnet malware attacks.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 11, 2025
Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex , a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov , 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.
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Troy Hunt
MARCH 30, 2025
Well, this certainly isn't what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn't expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot of "if it can happen to Troy, it can happen to anyone" sort of commentary and whilst it feels a bit of obnoxious for me to be saying it that way, I appreciate the sentiment and the awareness it drives.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 17, 2025
The FBI Denver Field Office has warned of an increasing number of scammy websites offering free online file converter services. Instead of converting files, the tools actually load malware onto victims computers. The FBI warned specifically about that malware leading to ransomware attacks, but we’ve also seen similar sites that install browser hijackers, adware, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs).
SecureList
MARCH 25, 2025
In mid-March 2025, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of infections by previously unknown and highly sophisticated malware. In all cases, infection occurred immediately after the victim clicked on a link in a phishing email, and the attackers’ website was opened using the Google Chrome web browser. No further action was required to become infected.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2025
Quantum computings ability to break todays encryption may still be years awaybut security leaders cant afford to wait. Forresters The Future of Quantum Security makes it clear: the transition to quantum-safe cryptography must start now. Related: Quantum standards come of age The real threat isnt just the eventual arrival of quantum decryptionits that nation-state actors are already stockpiling encrypted data in harvest now, decrypt later attacks.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 10, 2025
The malware includes four separate backdoors : Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed. A unique case we haven’t seen before. Which introduces another type of attack made possibly by abusing websites that don’t monitor 3rd party dependencies in the browser of their users.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 21, 2025
Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams, and that the accused were relying on a custom Android app to relay tap-to-pay transactions from mobile devices located in China.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 25, 2025
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow?
Malwarebytes
MARCH 10, 2025
There are more and more sites that use a clipboard hijacker and instruct victims on how to infect their own machine. I realize that may sound like something trivial to steer clear from, but apparently its not because the social engineering behind it is pretty sophisticated. At first, these attacks were more targeted at people that could provide cybercriminals a foothold at a targeted company, but their popularity has grown so much that now anyone can run into one of them.
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
Security Affairs
MARCH 8, 2025
The Akira ransomware gang exploited an unsecured webcam to bypass EDR and launch encryption attacks on a victim’s network. Cybersecurity researchers at S-RM team discovered a novel attack technique used by the Akira ransomware gang. The ransomware group used an unsecured webcam to encrypt systems within atarget’s network, bypassing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
Jane Frankland
MARCH 8, 2025
For nearly a decade, we’ve heard the same discussion in cybersecurity circles about the gender diversity problem. As the first women owned penetration testing provider in the UK some 28-years ago, Ive researched, campaigned, written, spoken and stepped up as a visible role model, always presenting the business case. I’ve also watched how panels, passion projects, and awareness campaigns touting the need for inclusivity and diversity have come and gone including my own.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 17, 2025
New paper: “ GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA: Brute Force Cryptanalysis of KASUMI, SPECK, and TEA3.” Abstract: Key lengths in symmetric cryptography are determined with respect to the brute force attacks with current technology. While nowadays at least 128-bit keys are recommended, there are many standards and real-world applications that use shorter keys.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 24, 2025
A sophisticated supply chain hack targeting Oracle Cloud has exfiltrated a staggering 6 million records. CloudSEKs XVigil uncovered that threat actor rose87168 began selling the stolen data on March 21. The breach, exploiting a vulnerability in Oracles cloud infrastructure, now endangers over 140,000 tenants and has raised serious questions about cloud security practices.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 19, 2025
Sydney, Australia, Mar. 19, 2025, CyberNewswire — Sydney-based cybersecurity software company Knocknoc has raised a seed round from US-based venture capital firm Decibel Partners with support from CoAct and SomethingReal. The funding will support go-to-market, new staff, customer onboarding and product development. The company has appointed Adam Pointon as Chief Executive Officer.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 26, 2025
Internet security expert and educator Troy Hunt disclosed this week that he had been hit by one of the oldestand most provenscams in the online world: A phishing attack. Through an automated attack disguised as a notice from Hunts chosen newsletter provider Mailchimp, scammers stole roughly 16,000 records belonging to current and past subscribers of Hunts blog.
Security Affairs
MARCH 30, 2025
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns of RESURGE malware, targeting a vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) on a new malware called RESURGE. The malicious code has been used in attacks targeting the flaw CVE-2025-0282 in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 8, 2025
We survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It'd been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction. In the end, we maxed out at 52kts just after I recorded this video: It’s here. But 47kts max gusts isn’t too bad, nothing actually blowing over here (yet). pic.twitter.com/qFyrZdiyRW — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 7, 2025 We re
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