March 2025

Amazon Ends Little-Used Privacy Feature That Let Echo Users Opt Out of Sending Recordings to Company

Amazon Ends Little-Used Privacy Feature That Let Echo Users Opt Out of Sending Recordings to Company 2025-03-20 at 13:20 By Associated Press Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. The post Amazon Ends Little-Used Privacy Feature

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Six Governments Likely Use Israeli Paragon Spyware to Hack IM Apps and Harvest Data

Six Governments Likely Use Israeli Paragon Spyware to Hack IM Apps and Harvest Data 2025-03-20 at 13:20 By The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of spyware developed by Israeli company Paragon Solutions, according to a new report from The Citizen Lab. Paragon, founded in 2019 by Ehud Barak

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UK’s biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won’t catch out April fools

UK’s biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won’t catch out April fools 2025-03-20 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it’s already contacted ‘known vulnerable customers’ UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is preparing to retire its 3G services, and is set to start with the city

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300 Malicious ‘Vapor’ Apps Hosted on Google Play Had 60 Million Downloads

300 Malicious ‘Vapor’ Apps Hosted on Google Play Had 60 Million Downloads 2025-03-20 at 12:30 By Ionut Arghire Over 300 malicious applications displaying intrusive full-screen interstitial video ads amassed more than 60 million downloads on Google Play. The post 300 Malicious ‘Vapor’ Apps Hosted on Google Play Had 60 Million Downloads appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Why Continuous Compliance Monitoring Is Essential For IT Managed Service Providers

Why Continuous Compliance Monitoring Is Essential For IT Managed Service Providers 2025-03-20 at 12:22 By Regulatory compliance is no longer just a concern for large enterprises. Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly subject to strict data protection and security regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CMMC, GDPR, and the FTC Safeguards Rule. However, many SMBs

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CISA Adds NAKIVO Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

CISA Adds NAKIVO Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation 2025-03-20 at 12:22 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting NAKIVO Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-48248 (CVSS score: 8.6),

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VPN Demand Spikes Over 10,000% in Turkey After Internet Restrictions

VPN Demand Spikes Over 10,000% in Turkey After Internet Restrictions 2025-03-20 at 12:04 View original post at vpnMentor vpnMentor’s team observed a whopping 10.000% surge in VPN demand in Turkey amidst the controversial detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. Following his arrest, authorities restricted access to social media and messaging platforms across the country. Key

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Russian Gotbit founder strikes $23M plea deal with US prosecutors

Russian Gotbit founder strikes $23M plea deal with US prosecutors 2025-03-20 at 12:04 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Aleksei Andriunin, a Russian national charged with manipulating cryptocurrency through the Gotbit market maker platform, has reportedly struck a plea deal with prosecutors in the United States. Gotbit founder and CEO Andriunin has agreed to forfeit about

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RansomHub affiliate leverages multi-function Betruger backdoor

RansomHub affiliate leverages multi-function Betruger backdoor 2025-03-20 at 12:03 By Zeljka Zorz A RansomHub affiliate is leveraging a new multi-function backdoor dubbed Betruger to perform various actions during their attacks, Symantec researchers have discovered. The Betruger backdoor The malware can take screenshots, log keystroke, scan networks, dump credentials, upload files to a command and control

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Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day 

Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day  2025-03-20 at 12:03 By Eduard Kovacs Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction. The post Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform

SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform 2025-03-20 at 11:33 By Lindsay Clark Even looming support deadline isn’t tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts The majority of SAP’s ECC users have not purchased licenses for S/4HANA – meaning its unlikely some of the world’s largest

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Coinbase becomes Ethereum’s largest node operator with 11% stake

Coinbase becomes Ethereum’s largest node operator with 11% stake 2025-03-20 at 11:09 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra A Coinbase report revealed that the crypto exchange is Ethereum’s biggest node operator, having 11.42% of the total staked Ether within the blockchain network.  In a performance report, Coinbase said it had 3.84 million Ether (ETH), worth about

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Bybit: 89% of stolen $1.4B crypto still traceable post-hack

Bybit: 89% of stolen $1.4B crypto still traceable post-hack 2025-03-20 at 11:09 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The lion’s share of the hacked Bybit funds is still traceable after the historic cybertheft, as blockchain investigators continue their efforts to freeze and recover these funds. The crypto industry was rocked by the largest hack in history

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What are proof-of-reserves audits, and how do they work?

What are proof-of-reserves audits, and how do they work? 2025-03-20 at 11:09 By Cointelegraph by Arunkumar Krishnakumar Key takeaways PoR audits are cryptographic verifications used by cryptocurrency exchanges to prove they hold sufficient assets to cover customer deposits.  Using methods like Merkle trees and zero-knowledge proofs, PoR ensures transparency, similar to how capital reserves are

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