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Tech News

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and Exploits:
- CISA warns of active exploitation of a vulnerability, CVE-2025-0994, in Trimble Cityworks software, urging users to apply patches. 👉 thehackernews.com
- More than 12,000 GFI KerioControl firewall instances are exposed to CVE-2024-52875. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A critical RCE bug in Microsoft Outlook is now being actively exploited in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- XE Group is actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in VeraCore to deploy persistent web shells. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft has identified over 3,000 leaked ASP.NET machine keys enabling code injection attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 thehackernews.com
- A massive brute force attack is underway, utilizing almost 2.8 million IP addresses to guess credentials for networking devices from Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
AI and Security:
- Microsoft Edge updates with an AI-powered Scareware Blocker. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Google DeepMind CEO dismisses DeepSeek's AI breakthrough as 'known techniques'. 👉 tech.slashdot.org 👉 cnbc.com
- Arm CEO Rene Haas predicts that DeepSeek will be banned in the US. 👉 9to5mac.com
- A Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition 'atrophied and unprepared'. 👉 slashdot.org 👉 404media.co
- OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe. 👉 techcrunch.com
- Meta accelerates AI hiring amid significant workforce cuts. 👉 winbuzzer.com
- Experts in Paris say that Policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive. 👉 nytimes.com^$
- Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years. 👉 t.co
- France plans to pledge one gigawatt of nuclear power for AI. 👉 wsj.com^$
- OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip's design to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC. 👉 tech.slashdot.org 👉 reuters.com
- Microsoft is raising rewards for its Copilot AI bug bounty program. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft identifies 3,000 leaked ASP.NET keys enabling code injection attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Anthropic launches Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact, showing AI use leans toward augmentation vs. automation. 👉 axios.com
- Google brings NotebookLM Plus to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount. 👉 techcrunch.com
- Google's AI Chief Dismisses DeepSeek's $6 Million Cost Estimates. 👉 iphoneincanada.ca
- Google DeepMind CEO says DeepSeek's cost claims are 'exaggerated'. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- DeepSeek app transmits sensitive user and device data without encryption. 👉 thehackernews.com
Data Breaches and Privacy:
- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records. 👉 threatpost.com
- US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Elon Musk's DOGE associates were granted access to confidential info about X's competitors. 👉 muskwatch.com
- Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels. 👉 threatpost.com
- HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Apple fixes zero-day exploited in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement:
- Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Police arrests 4 Phobos ransomware suspects and seizes 8Base sites. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC's X account. 👉 cnbc.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Mobile Security
- T-Mobile says satellite texting will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- A new audit of DeepSeek's mobile app for the Apple iOS operating system has found glaring security issues, the foremost being that it sends sensitive data over the internet sans any encryption, exposing it to interception and manipulation attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
Web Security:
- Hackers are exploiting Google Tag Manager to deploy credit card skimmer malware targeting Magento stores. 👉 thehackernews.com
- DragonRank Exploits IIS Servers with BadIIS Malware for SEO Fraud and Gambling Redirects. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names. 👉 theverge.com
Business and Industry:
- Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused an outage last week and impacted its operations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Nokia names Justin Hotard, who leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its new CEO, starting on April 1. 👉 wsj.com^$
- T-Mobile says satellite texting, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Steam Policy Change:
- Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model”. 👉 gamingonlinux.com
Cloud Security
- Watch Out For These 8 Cloud Security Shifts in 2025. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Other Cybersecurity News:
- Kimsuky hackers use a new custom RDP Wrapper for remote access. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras. 👉 threatpost.com
- France is going to invest 109 billions € on AI in the “next years”, its own “Project Stargate”. 👉 reddit.com
- Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles. 👉 coindesk.com
- Musk-led group makes $97.4bn bid for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. 👉 slashdot.org 👉 wsj.com^$
- A sim swap hacker pleads guilty. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- There was a server attack on a US Newspaper chain. 👉 augustafreepress.com
- Biden is investing in cybersecurity. 👉 threatpost.com
- Steam is implementing a ban on advertising-based business models. 👉 gamingonlinux.com
- AI-Powered Social Engineering is Reinventing Threats. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection. 👉 thehackernews.com

Tech News

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and Exploits:

CISA warns of active exploitation of a vulnerability, CVE-2025-0994, in Trimble Cityworks software, urging users to apply patches. 👉 thehackernews.com
More than 12,000 GFI KerioControl firewall instances are exposed to CVE-2024-52875. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A critical RCE bug in Microsoft Outlook is now being actively exploited in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
XE Group is actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in VeraCore to deploy persistent web shells. 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft has identified over 3,000 leaked ASP.NET machine keys enabling code injection attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com 👉 thehackernews.com
A massive brute force attack is underway, utilizing almost 2.8 million IP addresses to guess credentials for networking devices from Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

AI and Security:

Microsoft Edge updates with an AI-powered Scareware Blocker. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Google DeepMind CEO dismisses DeepSeek's AI breakthrough as 'known techniques'. 👉 tech.slashdot.org 👉 cnbc.com
Arm CEO Rene Haas predicts that DeepSeek will be banned in the US. 👉 9to5mac.com
A Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition 'atrophied and unprepared'. 👉 slashdot.org 👉 404media.co
OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe. 👉 techcrunch.com
Meta accelerates AI hiring amid significant workforce cuts. 👉 winbuzzer.com
Experts in Paris say that Policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive. 👉 nytimes.com^$
Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years. 👉 t.co
France plans to pledge one gigawatt of nuclear power for AI. 👉 wsj.com^$
OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip's design to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC. 👉 tech.slashdot.org 👉 reuters.com
Microsoft is raising rewards for its Copilot AI bug bounty program. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft identifies 3,000 leaked ASP.NET keys enabling code injection attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
Anthropic launches Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact, showing AI use leans toward augmentation vs. automation. 👉 axios.com
Google brings NotebookLM Plus to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount. 👉 techcrunch.com
Google's AI Chief Dismisses DeepSeek's $6 Million Cost Estimates. 👉 iphoneincanada.ca
Google DeepMind CEO says DeepSeek's cost claims are 'exaggerated'. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
DeepSeek app transmits sensitive user and device data without encryption. 👉 thehackernews.com

Data Breaches and Privacy:

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records. 👉 threatpost.com
US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Elon Musk's DOGE associates were granted access to confidential info about X's competitors. 👉 muskwatch.com
Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels. 👉 threatpost.com
HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Apple fixes zero-day exploited in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Cybercrime and Law Enforcement:

Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Police arrests 4 Phobos ransomware suspects and seizes 8Base sites. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC's X account. 👉 cnbc.com 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Mobile Security

T-Mobile says satellite texting will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
A new audit of DeepSeek's mobile app for the Apple iOS operating system has found glaring security issues, the foremost being that it sends sensitive data over the internet sans any encryption, exposing it to interception and manipulation attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com

Web Security:

Hackers are exploiting Google Tag Manager to deploy credit card skimmer malware targeting Magento stores. 👉 thehackernews.com
DragonRank Exploits IIS Servers with BadIIS Malware for SEO Fraud and Gambling Redirects. 👉 thehackernews.com
Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names. 👉 theverge.com

Business and Industry:

Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused an outage last week and impacted its operations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Nokia names Justin Hotard, who leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its new CEO, starting on April 1. 👉 wsj.com^$
T-Mobile says satellite texting, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Steam Policy Change:

Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model”. 👉 gamingonlinux.com

Cloud Security

Watch Out For These 8 Cloud Security Shifts in 2025. 👉 thehackernews.com
Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Other Cybersecurity News:

Kimsuky hackers use a new custom RDP Wrapper for remote access. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras. 👉 threatpost.com
France is going to invest 109 billions € on AI in the “next years”, its own “Project Stargate”. 👉 reddit.com
Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles. 👉 coindesk.com
Musk-led group makes $97.4bn bid for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. 👉 slashdot.org 👉 wsj.com^$
A sim swap hacker pleads guilty. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
There was a server attack on a US Newspaper chain. 👉 augustafreepress.com
Biden is investing in cybersecurity. 👉 threatpost.com
Steam is implementing a ban on advertising-based business models. 👉 gamingonlinux.com
AI-Powered Social Engineering is Reinventing Threats. 👉 thehackernews.com
Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection. 👉 thehackernews.com