News for March 2, 2025

News for March 2, 2025

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 1 Mar 2025


The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/21/the-1.5b-bybit-hack-the-era-of-operational-security-failures-has-arrived/

 

Beware: PayPal "New Address" feature abused to send phishing emails

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/beware-paypal-new-address-feature-abused-to-send-phishing-emails/

 

Cyberattack Hits Maryland County That's Home To NSA Headquarters

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/cyberattack-hits-maryland-county-thats-home-nsa-headquarters

 

Sneaky New ATM Scam That's Draining Bank Accounts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1R64Mp93qw

 

Amazon unveils its first quantum computing chip

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-amazon-unveils-quantum-chip.html

 

Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/leaked-chat-logs-expose-inner-workings-of-secretive-ransomware-group/

 

NASA Warns "First Real Evidence Of ANOTHER UNIVERSE" James Webb Telescope Saw Terrifying New Objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcCDF0zHzLE

 

Cybersecurity Is a Scam—And You’re Buying It

https://hackernoon.com/cybersecurity-is-a-scamand-youre-buying-it

 

Stablecoin Bank Hit by Cyberattack, Loses $49.5M to Hackers

https://gbhackers.com/stablecoin-bank-hit-by-cyberattack/

 

Hackers stole this engineer's 1Password database. Could it happen to you?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-stole-this-engineers-1password-database-could-it-happen-to-you/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/08/07/critical-1password-security-flaw-could-let-hackers-steal-unlock-key/

 

Hackers Hijack YouTube Channels to Target CS2 Fans with Fake Giveaways

https://hackread.com/hackers-hijack-youtube-channels-cs2-fans-fake-giveaways/

 

Piano Duel - Yuja Wang vs. Khatia Buniatishvili

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

 

Belgium probes if Chinese hackers breached its intelligence service

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/belgium-probes-if-chinese-hackers-breached-its-intelligence-service/

 

US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/us-employee-screening-giant-disa-says-hackers-accessed-data-of-more-than-3m-people/

 

New Backdoor Auto-color Linux Targets Systems in US and Asia

https://hackread.com/new-backdoor-auto-color-linux-systems-us-asia/

 

Ghostwriter Malware Targets Government Organizations with Weaponized XLS File

https://gbhackers.com/ghostwriter-malware-targets-government-organizations/

 

Did Hinduism Come From The Planet Mars? The Answer Will Shock You...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8Ubt8PTMw

 

Suspected Desorden hacker arrested for breaching 90 organizations

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-desorden-hacker-arrested-for-breaching-90-organizations/

 

Man Jailed 24 Years for Running Dark Web CSAM Sites from Coffee Shop

https://hackread.com/man-jailed-ran-dark-web-csam-sites-from-coffee-shop/

 

Smart Bed Security Flaw Lets Hackers Access Other Network Devices

https://gbhackers.com/smart-bed-security-flaw/

 

LightSpy Expands to 100+ Commands, Increasing Control Over Windows, macOS, Linux, and Mobile

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/lightspy-expands-to-100-commands.html

 

Microsoft confirms it's killing off Skype in May, after 14 years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-its-killing-off-skype-in-may-after-14-years/

 

Crypto and Cybersecurity: The Rising Threats and Why Reliable Wallets Matter

https://hackread.com/crypto-cybersecurity-rising-threats-reliable-wallets/

 

Major Bankruptcies Just Announced, Warren Buffett Mysterious Letter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhYOKXehw2E

 

LCRYX Ransomware Attacks Windows Machines by Blocking Registry Editor and Task Manager

https://gbhackers.com/lcryx-ransomware-attacks-windows-machines/

 

Worried About Crypto And Its Connection To Markets?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/worried-about-crypto-and-its-connection-markets

 

Hackers Impersonate Taiwan’s Tax Authority to Deploy Winos 4.0 Malware

https://hackread.com/hackers-impersonate-taiwans-tax-authority-winos-4-0-malware/

 

Over 49,000 misconfigured building access systems exposed online

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-49-000-misconfigured-building-access-systems-exposed-online/

 

Astor Piazzolla - Soledad (Tetiana Muchychka Las Damas Quintet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfnHV9t36I

 

SpyLend Android malware found on Google Play enabled financial cyber crime and extortion

https://securityaffairs.com/174540/malware/spylend-android-malware-100k-downloard.html

 

Fake ChatGPT Premium Phishing Scam Spreads to Steal User Credentials

https://gbhackers.com/fake-chatgpt-premium-phishing-scam/

 

Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vo1d-malware-botnet-grows-to-16-million-android-tvs-worldwide/

 

The truth about New Microsoft Majorana Chip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3-i6Z2EIc

 

From Sony to Bybit: How Lazarus Group became crypto’s supervillain

https://cointelegraph.com/news/lazarus-group-bybit-sony-crypto-supervillain

 

VS Code Extension with 9 Million Installs Attacks Developers with Malicious Code

https://gbhackers.com/vs-code-extension-with-9-million-installs-attacks/

 

The $3,300,000,000 CIA Salvage of AZORIAN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gT1FqLBCc

 

Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/belarus-linked-ghostwriter-uses.html

 

The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu

https://www.wired.com/story/chickens-vaccines-us-bird-flu/

 

Apartment buildings broken into with phone in minutes — IoT-connected intercoms using default creds vulnerable to anyone with Google

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/apartment-buildings-broken-into-with-phone-in-minutes-iot-connected-intercoms-using-default-creds-vulnerable-to-anyone-with-google

 

Predatory app downloaded 100,000 times from Google Play Store steals data, uses it for blackmail

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/predatory-app-downloaded-100000-times-from-google-play-store-steals-data-uses-it-for-blackmail

 

Who Created Bitcoin? Satoshi Nakamoto Identity Conspiracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEJEd7ycwk

 

Markets February consumer confidence posts biggest drop since 2021 in latest sign of slowing economy

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/25/february-consumer-confidence-comes-in-lighter-than-expected-in-latest-sign-of-slowing-economy.html

 

New Zhong Stealer Malware Exploit Zendesk to Attack Fintech and Cryptocurrency

https://gbhackers.com/new-zhong-stealer-malware-exploit-zendesk/

 

Amazing Public Piano Performance Of La Campanella!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1hHgWZvElc

 

Welinq and QphoX Partner to Create Seamless Connections Between Superconducting Quantum Processors for Scalable Computing

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/02/25/welinq-and-qphox-partner-to-create-seamless-connections-between-superconductingquantum-processors-for-scalable-computing/

 

Watch: AI Robot 'Attacks' Crowd In China

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-ai-robot-attacks-crowd-china

 

Squidoor: Multi-Vector Malware Exploiting Outlook API, DNS & ICMP Tunneling for C2

https://gbhackers.com/multi-vector-malware-exploiting-outlook-api-dns-icmp/

 

Hacked Markets: Inside the World of High-Frequency Trading Bots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAfPO8m_zGw

 

Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/new_ics_malware_dragos/

 

After a Violent Kidnapping, Crypto Elites Hire Bodyguards

https://www.wired.com/story/after-a-violent-kidnapping-crypto-elites-hire-bodyguards/

 

New Pass-the-Cookie Attacks Bypass MFA, Giving Hackers Full Account Access

https://gbhackers.com/new-pass-the-cookie-attacks-bypass-mfa/

 

Chinese medical devices are in health systems across U.S., and the government and hospitals are worried

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/23/china-made-medical-devices-are-all-over-us-and-the-feds-are-worried.html

 

The biggest data breaches of 2025 — so far

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-2025-so-far/

 

New Evidence Reveals Pyramids Were Built to Manipulate Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU7LDuENWzI

 

New Anubis Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, NAS, and ESXi x64/x32 Environments

https://gbhackers.com/new-anubis-ransomware-targets-windows-linux-nas-and-esxi/

 

ISPs Brace For State-Level Price Regulation as New York's $15 Broadband Law Sets Precedent

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/25/188257/isps-brace-for-state-level-price-regulation-as-new-yorks-15-broadband-law-sets-precedent

 

Bybit hacker launders $605M ETH, over 50% of stolen funds

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bybit-hack-lazarus-launders-605m-eth

 

The Wellerman | U.S. Navy Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtANV0k1dbY

 

Botnet of 130K Devices Targets Microsoft 365 in Password-Spraying Attack

https://hackread.com/botnet-devices-microsoft-365-password-spraying-attack/

 

California Sues Data-Harvesting Company NPD, Enforcing Strict Privacy Law

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/22/1512258/california-sues-data-harvesting-company-npd-enforcing-strict-privacy-law

 

Chinese Hackers Breach Belgium State Security Service as Investigation Continues

https://gbhackers.com/chinese-hackers-breach-belgium-state-security-service/

 

What Happened When The Soviets Launched A Giant Mirror Into Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWnpB5Wm5E

 

Australian IVF giant Genea breached by Termite ransomware gang

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australian-ivf-giant-genea-breached-by-termite-ransomware-gang/

 

Suspicious outflows detected from wallet linked to Mask Network founder

https://cointelegraph.com/news/suspicious-outflows-detected-from-mask-network-founder

 

Top Secret Area 51 Veterans Finally Speak | The Truth of the Matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fKxOliNuNA

 

SPAWNCHIMERA Malware Exploits Ivanti Buffer Overflow Vulnerability by Applying a Critical Fix

https://gbhackers.com/spawnchimera-malware-exploits-ivanti-buffer-overflow-vulnerability/

 

Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way

https://www.wired.com/story/large-magellanic-cloud-supermassive-black-hole/

 

WHY Have There Been So Many Plane Crashes Recently?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tc9FfWB4Fk

 

Signal Threatens to Exit Sweden Over Government’s Backdoor Proposal

https://hackread.com/signal-threatens-sweden-exit-over-government-backdoor/

 

Pump.fun X hack reveals security concerns at critical juncture for memecoins

https://cointelegraph.com/news/pump-fun-hack-security-concerns-memecoins

 

PingAM Java Agent Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Security

https://gbhackers.com/pingam-java-agent-vulnerability/

 

Microsoft Issues a Dire Warning "The AI Bubble Is About to Burst"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZg504QXRm8

 

Russia warns financial sector of major IT service provider hack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-warns-financial-sector-of-major-it-service-provider-hack/

 

Over 350 High-Profile Websites Hit by 360XSS Attack

https://hackread.com/over-350-high-profile-websites-hit-by-360xss-attack/

 

ROMANTIC FRENCH ACCORDION & GUITAR | BEAUTIFUL PARISIAN MELODIES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6oJqb0a9Q

 

Widespread Chrome Malware: 16 Extensions Infect Over 3.2 Million Users

https://gbhackers.com/16-extensions-infect-over-3-2-million-users/

 

Mozilla's Updated ToS: We Own All Info You Put Into Firefox

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/28/1147239/mozillas-updated-tos-we-own-all-info-you-put-into-firefox

 

Qilin ransomware claims attack at Lee Enterprises, leaks stolen data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qilin-ransomware-claims-attack-at-lee-enterprises-leaks-stolen-data/

 

Heart-Melting Singing Performance | Sun Kudumba Viruthugal 2025 | Sun TV

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

 

Encrypted Messages Are Being Targeted, Google Security Group Warns

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/22/0724228/encrypted-messages-are-being-targeted-google-security-group-warns

 

Countries and companies are fighting at the expense of our data privacy

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/countries-and-companies-are-fighting-at-the-expense-of-our-data-privacy

 

US bitcoin ETFs saw ~$3.3B in net outflow in Feb., the biggest monthly exodus since they debuted; BTC fell ~17% in Feb., its worst monthly drop since June 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/-hot-money-flees-bitcoin-etfs-at-record-pace-in-risk-aversion

 

Attackers could hack smart solar systems and cause serious damages

https://securityaffairs.com/174769/hacking/attackers-could-hack-smart-solar-systems.html

 

Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data

https://www.theverge.com/news/622026/zapier-data-breach-code-repositories

 

Argentina’s Crypto Scandal Swindled Thousands. What Did Javier Milei Know?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/world/americas/argentina-crypto-scandal-president.html

 

US Soldier Intends to Admit Hacking 15 Telecom Carriers

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/us-soldier-admits-hacking-15-telecom-carriers

 

Ransomware gangs exploit Paragon Partition Manager bug in BYOVD attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gangs-exploit-paragon-partition-manager-bug-in-byovd-attacks/

 

Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRbjg_0zu8

 

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

https://www.osnews.com/story/141794/it-is-no-longer-safe-to-move-our-governments-and-societies-to-us-clouds/

 

Comprehensive resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250226125234.htm

 

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/wallbleed_vulnerability_great_firewall/?td=rt-3a

 

Keep Your Old Android Phone Running Longer With LineageOS

https://www.wired.com/story/keep-your-old-android-phone-running-longer-with-lineageos/

 

Thorchain faces developer exodus amid North Korean money laundering scandal

https://cryptoslate.com/thorchain-faces-developer-exodus-amid-north-korean-money-laundering-scandal/

 

Chinese Scientists Overcome Key Barrier to Scalable Photonic Quantum Computing

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/01/chinese-scientists-overcome-key-barrier-to-scalable-photonic-quantum-computing/

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkuduuaAo4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T92rCMQOMI

 

DOGE WANTS TO AUDIT FORT KNOX GOLD

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/02/doge-wants-to-audit-fort-knox-gold/

 

Gmail will stop using SMS for two-factor authentication

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/gmail-will-stop-using-sms-for-two-factor-authentication-185615193.html

 

Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/researchers-uncover-unknown-android-flaws-used-to-hack-into-a-students-phone/

 

How Know-Your-Customer (KYC) is Used to Track Your Every Move

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzzbLMLzE7Y

 

VectraRx Mail Pharmacy Services Notifies 109K Individuals About Data Breach

https://www.hipaajournal.com/vectrarx-mail-pharmacy-services-notifies-data-breach/

 

GitVenom Campaign Abuses Thousands of GitHub Repositories to Infect Users

https://gbhackers.com/gitvenom-campaign-abuses-thousands-of-github-repositories/

 

Philippine army confirms attack on its networks

https://therecord.media/philippines-army-confirms-hack

 

Princesses of Violin: Pirates of the Caribbean

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

 

FBI confirms Lazarus hackers were behind $1.5B Bybit crypto heist

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-confirms-lazarus-hackers-were-behind-15b-bybit-crypto-heist/

 

Here's What Likely Caused Shocking Plane Crash in Canada Where Everyone Miraculously Survived

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

 

Southern Water says Black Basta ransomware attack cost £4.5M in expenses

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/southern-water-says-black-basta-ransomware-attack-cost-45m-in-expenses/

 

Hackers Unleash Devastating Cyber Assault on Critical Infrastructure

https://gbhackers.com/uac-0212-hackers-unleash-devastating-cyber-assault/

 

Microsoft Quietly Launched a Free Ad-Supported Office App, and No One Noticed

https://beebom.com/microsoft-free-ad-supported-office-quietly-launched/

 

US Background Check Firm Data Breach Exposes 3.3M Records

https://hackread.com/us-background-check-firm-data-breach-exposes-records/

 

GrassCall malware campaign drains crypto wallets via fake job interviews

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grasscall-malware-campaign-drains-crypto-wallets-via-fake-job-interviews/

 

Silver Fox APT Hackers Target Healthcare Services to Steal Sensitive Data

https://gbhackers.com/silver-fox-apt-hackers-target-healthcare-services/

 

They Did WHAT with the Gold?! Is A Gold Run Next?

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

 

Orange Group confirms breach after hacker leaks company documents

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/orange-group-confirms-breach-after-hacker-leaks-company-documents/

 

Over 35,000 Websites Hacked to Inject Malicious Scripts Redirecting Users to Chinese Websites

https://gbhackers.com/over-35000-websites-hacked-to-inject-malicious-scripts-redirecting-users/

 

Tango with Silvia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG4uLuYWB8Q

 

Silver Fox APT Hides ValleyRAT in Trojanized Medical Imaging Software

https://hackread.com/silver-fox-apt-valleyrat-trojanized-medical-imaging-software/

 

LARVA-208 Hackers Compromise 618 Organizations Stealing Logins and Deploying Ransomware

https://gbhackers.com/larva-208-hackers-compromise-618-organizations-stealing-logins/

 

Accordion & Bandura Songs | Instrumental Music | B&B Project

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

 

 

 

P.S. For those who want to have a list of annotations, here is the link to the article on how to do it with ChatGPT and Zapier

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

 

 

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