March 2025

Microsoft isn’t fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 2025-03-18 at 17:20 By Iain Thomson ‘Only’ a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there’s no sign of a fix from Microsoft,

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Swyftx acquires New Zealand’s Easy Crypto, citing Trump tailwind 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Australian crypto broker Swyftx is set to acquire New Zealand crypto exchange Easy Crypto, with one of the CEOs nodding at positive crypto policy changes in the United States.  Swyftx CEO Jason Titman said in a March 19

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Eliminating archaic payments systems with stablecoins 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Simon McLoughlin Opinion by: Simon McLoughlin, CEO at Uphold 2021 witnessed a fintech investment boom, with startups raising approximately $229 billion globally. Higher interest rates and tighter economic circumstances have since tempered that exuberance, but funds continue to pile into the sector. Indeed,

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ARK Invest joins $403M raise for AI robotics firm Apptronik 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Cryptocurrency-friendly investment firm ARK Invest has joined a massive Series A funding round for Apptronik, a Texas-based firm building humanoid robots. Apptronik, on March 18, announced the successful close of an oversubscribed $403M Series A funding round, adding another

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Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by 11 State-Sponsored Threat Groups Since 2017 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By An unpatched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows has been exploited by 11 state-sponsored groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as part of data theft, espionage, and financially motivated campaigns that date back to 2017. The zero-day vulnerability,

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Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion in Its Biggest Deal Ever to Boost Cloud Security 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Google is making the biggest ever acquisition in its history by purchasing cloud security company Wiz in an all-cash deal worth $32 billion. “This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and

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New Critical AMI BMC Vulnerability Enables Remote Server Takeover and Bricking 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in AMI’s MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and carry out post-exploitation actions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-54085, carries a CVSS v4 score of 10.0,

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How to Improve Okta Security in Four Steps 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By While Okta provides robust native security features, configuration drift, identity sprawl, and misconfigurations can provide opportunities for attackers to find their way in. This article covers four key ways to proactively secure Okta as part of your identity security efforts. Okta serves as

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Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count 2025-03-18 at 16:48 By Thomas Claburn The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign Oracle JDK 24 debuted on Tuesday with 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs as they’re known in the Java programming community.… This article is an

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Coinbase stock may rally to $310 on Trump-led crypto policies 2025-03-18 at 16:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Coinbase exchange’s stock price has received an optimistic price prediction from a Bernstein analyst, citing improving crypto regulatory clarity in the world’s largest economy. Gautam Chhugani, an analyst at global asset management firm Bernstein, initiated coverage of

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy plans to offer 5M shares to buy more Bitcoin 2025-03-18 at 16:02 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Business intelligence firm and Bitcoin investor Strategy plans to offer 5 million shares of the company’s Series A Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock and use the proceeds to purchase more Bitcoin.  In an announcement, the company

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New Ad Fraud Campaign Exploits 331 Apps with 60M+ Downloads for Phishing and Intrusive Ads 2025-03-18 at 15:34 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a large-scale ad fraud campaign that has leveraged hundreds of malicious apps published on the Google Play Store to serve full-screen ads and conduct phishing attacks. “The apps display out-of-context ads

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