Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2025

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International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime

Texas Man Convicted of Sabotaging his Employer’s Computer Systems and Deleting Data 

CYBERCRIME CREW CHARGED WITH STEALING AND RESELLING CONCERT TICKETS, INCLUDING FOR TAYLOR SWIFT’S ERAS TOUR 

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks 

Garantex administrator arrested in India at request of US authorities  

Phishing campaign impersonates Booking .com, delivers a suite of credential-stealing malware  

SuperBlack Ransomware operators exploit Fortinet Firewall flaws in recent attacks

Dual Russian And Israeli National Extradited To The United States For His Role In The LockBit Ransomware Conspiracy 

Coinbase phishing email tricks users with fake wallet migration

Ransomware attack takes down health system network in Micronesia 

Malware

Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool  

Ragnar Loader  

Desert Dexter. Attacks on Middle Eastern countries  

Ballista – New IoT Botnet Targeting Thousands of TP-Link Archer Routers 

Captain MassJacker Sparrow: Uncovering the Malware’s Buried Treasure     

Enhancing Malware Fingerprinting through Analysis of Evasive Techniques

Hacking

Tarlogic detects a hidden feature in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devices  

GreyNoise Detects Mass Exploitation of Critical PHP-CGI Vulnerability (CVE-2024-4577), Signaling Broad Campaign

Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan     

Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack  

Apple fixes WebKit zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks  

Android Deserialization Deep Dive  

Meta Warns of FreeType Vulnerability (CVE-2025-27363) With Active Exploitation Risk

New Evidence Suggests Attackers Are Mapping Infrastructure Before Exploitatio 

Jailbreaking is (Mostly) Simpler Than You Think

Eavesdropping on Black-box Mobile Devices via Audio Amplifier’s EMR

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Canadian intelligence agency warns of threat AI poses to upcoming elections

SideWinder targets the maritime and nuclear sectors with an updated toolset

Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers  

Lazarus Strikes npm Again with New Wave of Malicious Packages

Blind Eagle: …And Justice for All

Lookout Discovers New Spyware by North Korean APT37  

Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating’ to cyber, national security 

Hunting Active Threats in Littleton’s Grid with the Dragos Platform and OT Watch

Cybersecurity

Accelerated Takedowns: Limiting Dwell Time and Damage  

ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air 

Reducing the Cybersecurity Risks of Connected BMS  

Reporting cyberattacks on critical infrastructure mandatory from 1 April 2025  

The March 2025 Security Update Review 

Apple’s Lockdown Mode is good for security — but its notifications are baffling  

Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials  

Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data 

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