Security News > 2025 > March

Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
2025-03-31 23:16

Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly...

VMware Workstation auto-updates broken after Broadcom URL redirect
2025-03-31 22:55

VMware Workstation users report that the software's automatic update functionality is broken after Broadcom redirected the download URL to its generic support page, triggering certificate errors. [...]

OpenAI says Deep Research is coming to ChatGPT free "very soon"
2025-03-31 21:34

OpenAI has confirmed that its powerful AI agent "Deep Research" will begin rolling out to free users "very soon." At the moment, Deep Research is available only for Plus and Enterprise customers. [...]

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
2025-03-31 21:30

1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly –...

Microsoft uses AI to find flaws in GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox bootloaders
2025-03-31 19:56

Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. [...]

Phishing platform 'Lucid' behind wave of iOS, Android SMS attacks
2025-03-31 18:49

A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named 'Lucid' has been targeting 169 entities in 88 countries using well-crafted messages sent on iMessage (iOS) and RCS (Android). [...]

Hackers abuse WordPress MU-Plugins to hide malicious code
2025-03-31 17:06

Hackers are utilizing the WordPress mu-plugins ("Must-Use Plugins") directory to stealthily run malicious code on every page while evading detection. [...]

Russian Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-26633 via MSC EvilTwin to Deploy SilentPrism and DarkWisp
2025-03-31 16:41

The threat actors behind the zero-day exploitation of a recently-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows have been found to deliver two new backdoors called SilentPrism and DarkWisp....

Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims
2025-03-31 16:35

Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the...

North Korean hackers adopt ClickFix attacks to target crypto firms
2025-03-31 15:56

The notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group has reportedly adopted 'ClickFix' tactics to deploy malware targeting job seekers in the cryptocurrency industry, particularly centralized finance...