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Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday

Krebs on Security

The final zero-day this month is CVE-2025-26633 , a weakness in the Microsoft Management Console , a component of Windows that gives system administrators a way to configure and monitor the system. Exploiting this flaw requires the target to open a malicious file.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. ” According to Kilmer, AVrecon is the malware that gives SocksEscort its proxies.

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Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware

Bleeping Computer

A Canadian system administrator discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware. [.].

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New iLOBleed Rootkit, the first time ever that malware targets iLO firmware

Security Affairs

The module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. . The attacks were spotted by Iranian cybersecurity firm Amnpardaz, this is the first time ever that malware targets iLO firmware. ” reads the report published by the expers. ” continues the report.

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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Krebs on Security

The 2016 story on BackConnect featured an interview with a former system administrator at FSF who said the nonprofit briefly considered working with BackConnect, and that the attacks started almost immediately after FSF told the company’s owners they would need to look elsewhere for DDoS protection.

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‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Krebs on Security

” “We consider this to be a wormable vulnerability, meaning that it has the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction,” Microsoft wrote in its documentation of CVE-2020-1350. Not to say flaws rated “important” as opposed to critical aren’t also a concern.

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