🔥 Microsoft warns: 6 zero-days under active attack!

This month’s Patch Tuesday fixes 57 security flaws, including 6 exploited zero-days that attackers are already using for privilege escalation, data theft, and remote code execution.

🔹 Key threats:
CVE-2025-24985 & CVE-2025-24993 – File system flaws allowing remote code execution
CVE-2025-24983 – A Win32k zero-day used in the wild with PipeMagic malware
CVE-2025-26633 – Security bypass flaw in Microsoft Management Console

CISA has mandated patches by April 1. Don’t wait—secure your systems now!

🔗 Full patch details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/urgent-microsoft-patches-57-security.html

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According to ActiveState's 2025 State of Vulnerability Management and Remediation Report, DevSecOps pros signaled a 54% YoY increase in high-risk vulnerabilities—download the FREE report to learn how to stay ahead of the curve.

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🚨 Massive SSRF Attack Surge Detected 👀

GreyNoise warns of a coordinated wave of SSRF exploits hitting at least 400 IPs—targeting U.S., Germany, Singapore, Israel, and more.

🔴 Exploiting multiple CVEs at once, including:
• CVE-2020-7796 (Zimbra, CVSS 9.8)
• CVE-2021-22175 (GitLab, CVSS 9.8)
• CVE-2023-5830 (ColumbiaSoft, CVSS 9.8)

🚀 Automated? Pre-compromise recon? Either way—patch now, restrict outbound traffic, and monitor logs.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/over-400-ips-exploiting-multiple-ssrf.html

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🚨 China-backed hackers are hitting routers—undetected.

UNC3886 is targeting Juniper Networks routers, deploying stealthy TinyShell-based backdoors to control critical infrastructure. These implants evade security, disable logs, and hijack SSH creds—all in silence. 👀

Mandiant warns: "Long-term persistence, minimal detection."

Why does this matter? Routers are now the frontline. If they’re compromised, so is everything behind them.

🔗 Details on the latest cyber espionage:
https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/chinese-hackers-breach-juniper-networks.html

🚨 UPDATE: Garantex Co-Founder ARRESTED in India!

Besciokov was caught in Thiruvananthapuram while trying to flee after a U.S. extradition request (March 10). He was vacationing in Varkala when India’s CBI moved in.

More: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/us-secret-service-seizes-russian.html

🚨 Firefox Warning: Update Before March 14.

A critical root certificate will expire on March 14, 2025. If you’re using an old Firefox version (before 128 or ESR 115.13+), your add-ons may stop working, DRM media could break, and security features may fail.

📢 Fix it now: Update to Firefox 128+ (or ESR 115.13+) to avoid issues.

🔗 Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/warning-expiring-root-certificate-may.html

🚨 Critical Alert: A severe vulnerability (CVE-2025-27363) in the FreeType font library, used by millions, is being actively exploited.

This flaw allows RCE, risking numerous systems. Affected platforms include Linux distributions, Android, and iOS.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/meta-warns-of-freetype-vulnerability.html

Update to FreeType version 2.13.3 immediately to protect your devices. Act now!

🔴 ruby-saml Flaws Open SAML Auth to Hijacking

GitHub Security Lab found CVE-2025-25291 & CVE-2025-25292 (CVSS 8.8) in ruby-saml, allowing attackers to bypass authentication using a valid signature.

🔗 Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/github-uncovers-new-ruby-saml.html

🔑 Update now or risk account takeover.

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🚨 A never-before-seen Android spyware KoSpy is targeting Korean & English users—stealing texts, calls, files & more.

Masquerading as legit apps on Google Play, KoSpy operated undetected for 2 years (2022-2024). Now linked to APT27 & Kimsuky.

Meanwhile, North Korean hackers are also infiltrating npm packages & crypto wallets—deploying RustDoor, BeaverTail & Koi Stealer.

Find out here: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/north-koreas-scarcruft-deploys-kospy.html

🚨 Microsoft Warns: Fake Booking[.]com Emails Deploying Malware!

Hackers are using a new social engineering trick—ClickFix—to target the hospitality sector. Victims unknowingly copy-paste a command that launches data-stealing malware.

⚠️ How the scam works:
🔹 Fake Booking[.]com email → "Bad review alert!"
🔹 Clicks lead to a fake CAPTCHA
🔹 Trick: Victim pastes a malicious command = Instant infection

🔎 Who’s behind it? A cybercrime group Storm-1865—now using the same tactics as Russian & Iranian hackers.

🔗 More details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/microsoft-warns-of-clickfix-phishing.html

🚨 Backups are failing when it matters most.

🔹 Only 40% of IT teams trust their backups
🔹 Downtime costs $14K/min
🔹 60% think they can recover in a day—only 35% do
🔹 94% of ransomware victims have backups targeted

IT leaders must act now. See the State of Backup & Recovery 2025 for key risks & solutions.

Read now: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/bcdr-2025-trends-and-challenges-for-msps-and-it-teams.html

🚨 New Malware Alert | OBSCURE#BAT 🦇
Hackers are using fake CAPTCHA pages & Trojanized software (Tor, VoIP apps) to spread the r77 rootkit—hiding files, evading antivirus, and persisting after reboot.

🎭 Targets: 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪 🛠️ Techniques: Obfuscated batch scripts, AMSI bypass, API hooking 🔍 Stealthy & dangerous—already in the wild!

Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/obscurebat-malware-uses-fake-captcha.html

🏴‍☠️ Pirates Beware!

Downloading cracked software? You might be installing MassJacker—a new clipper malware hijacking crypto transactions.

🔹 778,531 attacker-controlled wallets
🔹 $336,700 in stolen funds
🔹 Hides inside pirated downloads from pesktop[.]com

Your clipboard isn't safe. Copy a wallet address? It swaps it with the hacker’s.

🔗 Full story: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/new-massjacker-malware-targets-piracy.html

🔒 GSMA is bringing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to RCS messages between Android & iOS. That means private, secure chats—no matter the device.

This comes right after Apple agreed to support RCS in iOS 18. Until now, Google encrypted RCS in its Messages app, but cross-platform chats were left exposed.

🔗 Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/gsma-confirms-end-to-end-encryption-for.html

🚨 LockBit Dev Extradited to U.S.

Rostislav Panev, a 51-year-old dual Russian-Israeli national, is now in U.S. custody—charged for developing LockBit ransomware.

LockBit has hit 2,500+ victims in 120+ countries, raking in $500M+ in profits.

🔗 Full story: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/alleged-israeli-lockbit-developer.html

🚨 Most microsegmentation projects fail before starting—too complex, slow, and disruptive.

But Andelyn Biosciences succeeded.

✅ 2,700 security policies enforced
✅ No hardware changes needed
✅ Full segmentation in weeks, not years

They replaced legacy VLANs and firewalls with Elisity's identity-based microsegmentation.

🔍 Learn how and get lessons for your Zero Trust journey: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/why-most-microsegmentation-projects.html

🚨 2025 is the year of cyberattacks.

🔹 Phishing is getting smarter.
🔹 MFA isn’t stopping breaches.
🔹 AppSec tools are still missing the mark.

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🚨 Hackers are poisoning PyPI again. Devs, check your dependencies NOW!

Cybercriminals planted 20 fake Python packages on PyPI—stealing cloud access tokens from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. These packages, disguised as "time" utilities, racked up 14,100+ downloads before removal.

👀 One even snuck into a GitHub project with 519 stars and 42 forks.

🔗 Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html

🚨 WARNING: A supply chain attack hit tj-actions/changed-files, a GitHub Action used by 23,000+ repos—exposing AWS keys, PATs, and RSA keys in CI/CD logs.

👀 Affected? Update to v46.0.1 NOW and Audit workflows for leaks.

🔗 Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/github-action-compromise-puts-cicd.html