Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: March 2025

RIP Mark Klein

2006 AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has died.  

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Chromecast chaos – 2nd gen devices go belly-up as Google struggles to fix certificate issue

Graham CLULEY March 13, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Has your old Chromecast suddenly developed a problem? You’re not alone it seems. Many users of second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio streaming devices have discovered that their beloved dongles have gone belly-up and are showing error messages such […]

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Microsoft Warns of ClickFix Phishing Campaign Targeting Hospitality Sector via Fake Booking[.]com Emails

Microsoft has shed light on an ongoing phishing campaign that targeted the hospitality sector by impersonating online travel agency Booking.com using an increasingly popular social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver credential-stealing malware. The activity, the tech giant’s threat intelligence team said, started in December 2024 and operates with the end goal of conducting financial […]

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North Korea’s ScarCruft Deploys KoSpy Malware, Spying on Android Users via Fake Utility Apps

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as ScarCruft is said to have been behind a never-before-seen Android surveillance tool named KoSpy targeting Korean and English-speaking users. Lookout, which shared details of the malware campaign, said the earliest versions date back to March 2022. The most recent samples were flagged in March 2024. It’s not clear […]

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Medusa ransomware: FBI and CISA urge organisations to act now to mitigate threat

The Medusa ransomware gang continues to present a major threat to the critical infrastructure sector, according to a newly-released joint advisory from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). As of February 2025, the Medusa ransomware operation, which we have previously detailed on the Tripwire […]

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GitHub Uncovers New ruby-saml Vulnerabilities Allowing Account Takeover Attacks

Two high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source ruby-saml library that could allow malicious actors to bypass Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication protections. SAML is an XML-based markup language and open-standard used for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, enabling features like single sign-on (SSO), which allows 

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Future-Proofing Business Continuity: BCDR Trends and Challenges for 2025

As IT environments grow more complex, IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to secure business-critical data. With hybrid work the new standard and cloud adoption on the rise, data is increasingly distributed across different environments, providers and locations, expanding the attack surface for emerging cyberthreats. While the need for a strong data protection strategy has […]

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

Meta has warned that a security vulnerability impacting the FreeType open-source font rendering library may have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-27363, and carries a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating high severity. Described as an out-of-bounds write flaw, it could be exploited to achieve remote code execution […]

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WARNING: Expiring Root Certificate May Disable Firefox Add-Ons, Security Features, and DRM Playback

Browser maker Mozilla is urging users to update their Firefox instances to the latest version to avoid facing issues with using add-ons due to the impending expiration of a root certificate. “On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used to verify signed content and add-ons for various Mozilla projects, including Firefox, will expire,” Mozilla said. […]

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