News for March 16, 2025

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 15 Mar 2025


US govt says Americans lost record $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-says-americans-lost-record-125-billion-to-fraud-in-2024/

 

EU wants to implement CBDC by October 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHd_1QEC5r4

 

SMS Scam Uses Elon Musk’s Name to Sell Fake Energy Devices to US Users

https://hackread.com/sms-scam-elon-musks-sell-fake-energy-devices-usa/

 

PowerSchool previously hacked in August, months before data breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/powerschool-previously-hacked-in-august-months-before-data-breach/

 

More than 300,000 US healthcare patients impacted in suspected Rhysida cyber attacks

https://www.itpro.com/security/cyber-attacks/us-healthcare-cyber-attacks-sunflower-medical-group

 

AI Scams Are Here – Protect Yourself Now! - A Very Serious Warning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3PshSSDTMo

 

Cybersecurity in Crypto: Best Practices to Prevent Theft and Fraud

https://hackread.com/cybersecurity-crypto-practices-to-prevent-theft-fraud/

 

Thinkware Dashcam Vulnerability Leaks Credentials to Attackers

https://gbhackers.com/thinkware-dashcam-vulnerability/

 

The Forces That Flipped Trump From Crypto Critic to ‘Crypto President’

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-crypto-president-meme-coin-0ca2c31b

 

Quantum leap: Passwords in the new era of computing security

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/quantum-leap-passwords-in-the-new-era-of-computing-security/

 

Cyberattack on Military Manufacturing, Security Risk and Official Silence

https://agendamalvinas.com.ar/en/noticia/ciberataque-a-fabricaciones-militares-riesgo-de-seguridad-y-silencio-oficial

 

D-Wave Claims 'Quantum Supremacy,' Beating Traditional Computers

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/12/1835207/d-wave-claims-quantum-supremacy-beating-traditional-computers

 

Macy's WARNING SIGNALS CONSUMER SPENDING CRISIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrbJd2cjv6I

 

Cobalt Strike Exploitation by Hackers Drops, Report Reveals

https://gbhackers.com/cobalt-strike-exploitation-by-hackers-drops/

 

US cities warn of wave of unpaid parking phishing texts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-cities-warn-of-wave-of-unpaid-parking-phishing-texts/

 

There’s Only 0.04% of USA's GOLD Left. Can Trump Buy it Back For $42? | Mike Maloney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZy3iS85LQ

 

Fairview Sale Barn livestock dealer in Illinois, USA hacked

https://www.facebook.com/fairviewsalebarn/posts/pfbid0bda9oSBoFZaKrXn9SwQaGQC5wFMEV2NWoxUur1Dg2jWLKaxjv1iDzFmjxRHi7hHjl

 

Over 1000 Malicious Packages Found Exploiting Open-Source Platforms

https://hackread.com/malicious-packages-exploiting-open-source-platforms/

 

Large Study Shows Drinking Alcohol Is Good For Your Cholesterol Levels

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/0016206/large-study-shows-drinking-alcohol-is-good-for-your-cholesterol-levels

 

Rafael Riqueni Flamenco Guitar Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUGx6Cmmqc

 

Cyber attack on a university in France

https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/rennes-35000/luniversite-de-rennes-victime-dune-cyberattaque-5559d17c-fd9b-11ef-96f1-e130525ba9af

 

WinDbg Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Execute Remote Code

https://gbhackers.com/windbg-vulnerability/

 

Thousands of TP-Link Routers Have Been Infected By a Botnet To Spread Malware

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/11/207242/thousands-of-tp-link-routers-have-been-infected-by-a-botnet-to-spread-malware

 

X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/x-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-amid-dark-storms-ddos-claims/

 

The fascist tech bro takeover is here

https://www.osnews.com/story/141900/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here/

 

Nu Quantum Partners With The University of Sussex, Cisco, and Infineon to Scale Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/12/nu-quantum-partners-with-the-university-of-sussex-cisco-and-infineon-to-scale-trapped-ion-quantum-computers/

 

The ECONOMY Is CRASHING Fast... | David Rosenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2CTRJlJu4

 

X experiences intermittent outages globally, beginning early on March 10

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-s-x-experiences-intermittent-outages-across-the-globe

 

Red Report 2025: Unmasking a 3X Spike in Credential Theft and Debunking the AI Hype

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-report-2025-unmasking-a-3x-spike-in-credential-theft-and-debunking-the-ai-hype/

 

New OBSCURE#BAT Malware Targets Users with Fake Captchas

https://hackread.com/new-obscurebat-malware-targets-users-fake-captchas/

 

Threat Actors Evade Security Measures to Launch SIM Swap Attacks

https://gbhackers.com/threat-actors-evade-security-measures/

 

Francis Hunt, Matthew Piepenburg, Henrik Zeberg, Roy van Krimpen: GOLD vs CRYPTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydcRWEYUcaA

 

FTC will send $25.5 million to victims of tech support scams

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-will-send-255-million-to-victims-of-tech-support-scams/

 

A Dev Built a Kill Switch That Activated When He Got Fired. Now He’s Convicted of Criminal Sabotage

https://gizmodo.com/a-dev-built-a-kill-switch-that-activated-when-he-got-fired-now-hes-convicted-of-criminal-sabotage-2000574032

 

106 Indisputable Alien And UFO Sightings caught on camera!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlbFn1K8RSg

 

ClickFix attack delivers infostealers, RATs in fake Booking.com emails

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clickfix-attack-delivers-infostealers-rats-in-fake-bookingcom-emails/

 

Crypto mixers and crosschain bridges: How hackers launder stolen assets

https://cointelegraph.com/explained/crypto-mixers-and-crosschain-bridges-how-hackers-launder-stolen-assets

 

Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-family-has-held-deal-talks-with-binance-following-crypto-exchanges-guilty-plea-05b029fa

 

Blind Eagle Hackers Exploit Google Drive, Dropbox & GitHub to Evade Security Measures

https://gbhackers.com/blind-eagle-hackers-exploit-google-drive-dropbox-github/

 

A Recession is Imminent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEfGLiK9TQ

 

Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials

https://cyberinsider.com/polymorphic-chrome-extensions-impersonate-password-managers-to-steal-credentials/

 

The "Ridiculous Political Puppet Show"

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ridiculous-political-puppet-show-part-2

 

Critical PHP RCE vulnerability mass exploited in new attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-php-rce-vulnerability-mass-exploited-in-new-attacks/

 

QNodeOS claims to be the first operating system for quantum networks, paving the way for future quantum applications

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/qnodeos-claims-to-be-the-first-operating-system-for-quantum-networks-paving-the-way-for-future-quantum-applications

 

Global Trade is Facing a Crisis – And No One is Ready For It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IEzHM1PQ4

 

DDoS attack on the website of the department administration

https://www.bfmtv.com/marseille/bouches-du-rhone-le-site-du-departement-inaccessible-apres-une-cyberattaque_AN-202503100350.html

 

macOS NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability Allow Attackers Exploits Kernel

https://gbhackers.com/macos-null-pointer-dereference-vulnerability/

 

Top 4 Julio Iglesias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0PL_WN4Bwo

 

Ransomware Hits Record High: 126% Surge in Attacks in February 2025

https://hackread.com/ransomware-attacks-hit-record-high-in-february-2025/

 

New SuperBlack ransomware exploits Fortinet auth bypass flaws

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-superblack-ransomware-exploits-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws/

 

Critical Vulnerabilities in Moxa Switches Enable Unauthorized Access

https://gbhackers.com/critical-vulnerabilities-in-moxa-switches/

 

Estas Tonne - Perception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbkc_0Ns6q0

 

Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/2027216/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-chinese-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices

 

HealthTech Database Exposed 108GB Medical and Employment Records

https://hackread.com/healthtech-database-exposed-medical-employment-records/

 

Blind Eagle Targets Organizations with Weaponized .URL Files to Steal User Hashes

https://gbhackers.com/blind-eagle-targets-organizations-with-weaponized-url-files/

 

Judy Shelton: It's "Day 1" Of The Reckoning As US' Unsustainable Fiscal Path Runs Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wm2CC5K1AI

 

MassJacker malware uses 778,000 wallets to steal cryptocurrency

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massjacker-malware-uses-778-000-wallets-to-steal-cryptocurrency/

 

DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot

https://gizmodo.com/doge-is-replacing-fired-workers-with-a-chatbot-2000573510

 

Laravel Framework Flaw Allows Attackers to Execute Malicious JavaScript

https://gbhackers.com/laravel-framework-flaw/

 

Arabesque - Greatest Hits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OI2RgtO65k

 

Binance Spoofers Compromise PCs in 'TRUMP' Crypto Scam

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/binance-spoofers-compromise-pcs-trump-crypto-scam

 

IOWA PONDERING LAW STRIPPING VACCINE COMPANY IMMUNITY

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/03/iowa-pondering-law-stripping-vaccine-company-immunity/

 

Chinese Cyber Espionage Group UNC3886 Backdoored Juniper Routers

https://hackread.com/chinese-group-unc3886-backdoor-juniper-routers/

 

Hackers Exploiting JSPSpy To Manage Malicious Webshell Networks

https://gbhackers.com/hackers-exploiting-jspspy-to-manage/

 

Francis Hunt: How to TRADE the coming HYPER STAGFLATION for wealth SURVIVAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfLoQUSx7s

 

What Happens When Push Notifications Go Malicious?

https://hackread.com/what-happens-when-push-notifications-go-malicious/

 

Government hiding foreclosures. Over 1,000,000 loans in default

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdtyDnGM-o

 

Meteora says co-founder’s X account hacked after ‘parasitic’ memecoin post

https://cointelegraph.com/news/meteora-ben-chow-x-account-hacked-memecoin-controversy

 

AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

 

North Korean Hackers Use Google Play Malware to Steal SMS, Calls & Screenshots

https://gbhackers.com/north-korean-hackers-use-google-play-malware/

 

Cloud Data Analytics Is a Scam

https://blog.bemi.io/cloud-data-scam/

 

Stock Market CRASH! Prepare For RECESSION..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnenA031pHI

 

FTX liquidated $1.5B in 3AC assets 2 weeks before hedge fund’s collapse

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-liquidated-three-arrows-capital-assets-before-collapse

 

North Korean Lazarus hackers infect hundreds via npm packages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-lazarus-hackers-infect-hundreds-via-npm-packages/

 

Hackers Exploiting Exposed Jupyter Notebooks to Deploy Cryptominers

https://gbhackers.com/hackers-exploiting-exposed-jupyter-notebooks/

 

Zodiac - The Best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbjuxEC-Z8U

 

Why the toll road text scam is out of control across the U.S., and Apple, Android can’t do anything to stop it

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/why-toll-text-scam-is-out-of-control-and-apple-android-cant-stop-it.html

 

DeepSeek R1 Jailbreaked to Create Malware, Including Keyloggers and Ransomware

https://gbhackers.com/deepseek-r1-jailbreaked-to-create-malware/

 

Rivers Casino Philadephia Suffers Data Breach

https://www.wtae.com/article/rivers-casino-data-breach-philadelphia-pittsburgh/64151675

 

Coinbase phishing email tricks users with fake wallet migration

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-phishing-email-tricks-users-with-fake-wallet-migration/

 

Ransomware attack takes down health system network in Micronesia

https://therecord.media/ransomware-attack-micronesia-health-system

 

New Cyber Attack Targets PyPI Users to Steal Cloud Tokens and Sensitive Data

https://gbhackers.com/new-cyber-attack-targets-pypi-users/

 

Romantic Saxophone Perfect for Your Moment of Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYikJ7NaB4Y

 

'SideWinder' Intensifies Attacks on Maritime Sector

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/sidewinder-intensifies-attacks-maritime-sector

 

New Ballista Botnet spreads using TP-Link flaw. Is it an Italian job?

https://securityaffairs.com/175278/malware/ballista-botnet-exploits-unpatched-tp-link-flaw.html

 

Federal Judge Imposes $24 Billion Judgement Against China For COVID Cover-Up As Missouri Moves To Seize Assets

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-imposes-24-billion-judgement-against-china-covid-cover-missouri-moves-seize

 

Cyber attack on a city government in Portugal

https://www.facebook.com/cmmurca.pt/posts/pfbid02K553jvbJ1Rfnucgm6ZVfnLXTfwmPZLLrBYx2yKqyoJqUWPE5LXQxgLqDbPzXyuRol

 

AWS SNS Exploited for Data Exfiltration and Phishing Attacks

https://gbhackers.com/aws-sns-exploited-for-data-exfiltration/

 

1.2 MILLION Americans Just LOST Their Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2Ep8CPV0U

 

North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/north-korean-government-hackers-snuck-spyware-on-android-app-store/

 

Suspected LockBit ransomware dev extradited to United States

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-lockbit-ransomware-dev-extradited-to-united-states/

 

What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

 

Cyber attack on a insurance broker in New Zealand

https://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-broker/nz-brokerage-suffers-cyberattack

 

Silver as a Hedge Against Market Chaos

https://dailyreckoning.com/silver-as-a-hedge-against-market-chaos/

 

Carmen's Tango: Destiny Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwpygZMNjRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbpDZgDU3hA

 

Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer's systems

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/developer-guilty-of-using-kill-switch-to-sabotage-employers-systems/

 

New Microsoft 365 Phishing Scam Tricks Users Into Calling Fake Support

https://hackread.com/new-microsoft-365-phishing-scam-calling-fake-support/

 

Cyber attack on a school district in New Hampshire, USA

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pelham-school-district-offline-after-cyberattack/ar-AA1AX25a

 

Threat Actor Impersonates Booking.com in Phishing Scheme

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/threat-actor-booking-com-clickfix-phishing-scheme

 

MirrorFace APT Using Custom Malware To Exploited Windows Sandbox & Visual Studio Code

https://gbhackers.com/mirrorface-apt-using-custom-malware-to-exploited/

 

VERA DANILINA - Classical Guitar Concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUbmbD1ws9M

 

Fake Binance Wallet Email Promises TRUMP Coin, Installs Malware

https://hackread.com/fake-binance-wallet-email-trump-coin-malware/

 

NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption

 

China’s Volt Typhoon Hackers Dwelled in US Electric Grid for 300 Days

https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-volt-typhoon-hackers-dwelled-in-us-electric-grid-for-300-days/

 

Fully Undetected Anubis Malware Enables Hackers to Execute Remote Commands

https://gbhackers.com/fully-undetected-anubis-malware-enables-hackers/

 

Retro Jazz Café

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98IUZjnpvk

 

Over 400 IPs Exploiting Multiple SSRF Vulnerabilities in Coordinated Cyber Attack

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

 

Android devices track you before you even sign in

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in

 

MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/minja_attack_poisons_ai_model_memory/?td=rt-3a

 

How to Wipe Saved Passwords From Your Web Browser

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-wipe-saved-passwords-from-your-web-browser

 

New CCA Jailbreak Method Works Against Most AI Models

https://www.securityweek.com/new-cca-jailbreak-method-works-against-most-ai-models/

 

A Comprehensive Guide To Recover Data In Linux After Accidentally Deleting Your OS

https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/guide-to-recover-data-in-linux-after-accidentally-deleting-your-os/

 

Live Ransomware Demo: See How Hackers Breach Networks and Demand a Ransom

https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/live-ransomware-demo-see-how-hackers.html

 

Ransomware gang creates tool to automate VPN brute-force attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/black-basta-ransomware-creates-automated-tool-to-brute-force-vpns/

 

Is Google Search Cooked?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/podcasts/hardfork-google-ai-mode.html

 

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762

 

Skype is shutting down in May — these are the best alternatives

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/15/skype-shuts-down-in-may-these-are-the-best-alternatives/

 

DB news X account hack leads to 20% Trump memecoin pump and dump

https://cryptoslate.com/db-news-x-account-hack-leads-to-20-trump-memecoin-pump-and-dump/

 

Leaked Apple Meeting Shows How Dire the Siri Situation Really Is

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/03/15/0053233/leaked-apple-meeting-shows-how-dire-the-siri-situation-really-is

 

Oxford Instruments, OQC, and Quantum Machines to Reveal Open Quantum Computing Platform at APS Global Physics Summit 2025

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/14/oxford-instruments-oqc-and-quantum-machines-to-reveal-open-quantum-computing-platform-at-aps-global-physics-summit-2025/

 

Research on iOS apps shows widespread exposure of secrets

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/research-on-ios-apps-shows-widespread-exposure-of-secrets

 

Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/ipv4_loan_collateral/

 

Beautiful Songs from Dana Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVv-POAz2nE

 

 

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https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-summarize-an-article/

 

 

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