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This posting is here to collect cyber security news in March 2025.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2647663/is-a-hacker-logged-into-your-google-account-heres-how-to-check.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
The White House Said No Classified Material Was Shared in the Group Chat. Then the Rest of It Leaked
We’re speechless.
https://futurism.com/rest-pentagon-group-chat-leaked
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-spent-years-telco
Chinese hackers spent four years inside Asian telco’s networks
An Asian telecommunications company was allegedly breached by Chinese government hackers who spent four years inside its systems, the incident response firm Sygnia said Monday.
The company said the hackers, who they call “Weaver Ant,” compromised home routers made by Zyxel to gain entry into the “major” telco’s environment.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-openpubkey-ssh-opkssh-integrating-single-sign-on-with-ssh/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Confirms Gmail Upgrade—3 Billion Users Must Now Decide
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/03/24/google-confirms-gmail-upgrade-3-billion-users-must-now-decide/
Tomi Engdahl says:
GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3849245/github-suffers-a-cascading-supply-chain-attack-compromising-ci-cd-secrets.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cybersecurity Experts Are Sounding the Alarm on DOGE
https://time.com/7268032/doge-cybersecurity-elon-musk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Ftechnology&fbclid=IwY2xjawJIsjJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQtNnLdaTugDpUrQetoNX8IcINv3RoUD8wiHEyw8s6AsFM4IpOLgUHt46g_aem_R8-7LQ5Mb6bHWQ7N6myn2g
Tomi Engdahl says:
A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-of-attacks-on-encryption-is-starting-to-heat-up/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/chaos-in-cloudflare-lisbon-office-securing-the-internet-with-wave-motion/
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application.” https://trib.al/xMLlIXp
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pentagon Issued Warning About Signal Messaging One Week Before Its Head Was Caught Using It
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-issued-warning-signal-messaging?fbclid=IwY2xjawJVTslleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZAbPBIzQYuvi5UwchxoimvVX1Efib5lQD7awyM40TAcwcu74xRhvNJfBg_aem_CuiXghctj60pJBlMk1OnWA
The White House has gone on the defensive, saying no classified information was shared in the chat. But NPR is now reporting that a Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.
The advisory claimed that a “vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application,” and that Russian hacking groups were “targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest” (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn’t “aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven’t addressed publicly.”)
Tomi Engdahl says:
How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?
23andMe’s demise raises thorny legal questions
Tomi Engdahl says:
Signal sees its downloads double after scandal
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/signal-sees-its-downloads-double-after-scandal/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2NZpAm9WwHjSVycdNvmFkHuUhVuLZ8swYBCiJuaC76InIguI7gPyJr3KM_aem_XZHqfbv2Yb_ZkRZlL5GQoQ
Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal, which saw The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a group chat where high-ranking officials in the Trump administration were discussing an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The resulting press coverage around the leak of these sensitive plans has been driving more people to check out Signal’s app for the first time, leading to a doubling of its downloads.