News – February 2025


  • Upper Michigan: Cyber attack hits Sault Tribe offices

    February 13, 2025

    A ransomware attack that shut down gaming at all five Kewadin Casino locations also impacted other offices at an eastern Upper Peninsula tribe. The tribe made the announcement Monday and said it could be a week or more before regular operations can resume. “On Sunday morning, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians suffered a ...

  • Italian government denies Paragon has cut spyware contract

    February 12, 2025

    Italy denied on Wednesday that Israeli spyware maker Paragon had cut ties with Rome following allegations that the Italian government had illegally used its technology to hack the phones of critics instead of criminals. “Paragon has never suspended the service and has not terminated its contract,” the cabinet undersecretary for intelligence matters, Alfredo Mantovano, told reporters. ...

  • Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook

    February 12, 2025

    While you might think you’re hitting the jackpot, whether you’ve consented to it or not, online gambling sites are playing with your data. Users’ data, including details of webpages they visited and buttons they clicked, are being shared with Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The Observer reports that over 150 UK gambling websites have been extracting visitor ...

  • Ivanti Releases February 2025 Security Updates

    February 12, 2025

    Ivanti has released three security advisories in the February Security Update, which addresses vulnerabilities in Ivanti products. In the first advisory, two vulnerabilities were identified in Ivanti Cloud Services Application (CSA). The Ivanti CSA is an Internet appliance that provides secure communication and functionality over the Internet. It falls under the primary product of Ivanti Endpoint ...

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America, March 11-13, 2025, Houston TX

    February 12, 2025

    Bringing together leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies, and governments to collaborate on securing North America See full speaker line-up here: https://ciprna-expo.com/speakers2025/ Register with promo code ‘CSR20’ to save 20% on delegate fees: https://ciprna-expo.com/buy-tickets/ There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their ...

  • SonicOS SSL VPN Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53704)

    February 12, 2025

    A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been published by security researchers for an authentication bypass vulnerability in the SonicOS SSL VPN component. SonicWall appliances provide virtual private network (VPN) and ‘next-gen’ firewall capabilities. SonicWall formally disclosed and released security updates addressing CVE-2024-53704 on 07 January 2025. Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-53704 could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to ...

  • The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation

    February 12, 2025

    Microsoft is publishing for the first time their research into a subgroup within the Russian state actor Seashell Blizzard and its multiyear initial access operation, tracked by Microsoft Threat Intelligence as the “BadPilot campaign”. This subgroup has conducted globally diverse compromises of Internet-facing infrastructure to enable Seashell Blizzard to persist on high-value targets and support tailored ...

  • Paris AI summit: Why won’t US, UK sign global artificial intelligence pact?

    February 12, 2025

    The United States and United Kingdom have refused to sign an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit declaration calling for policies “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy”. The summit in Paris on Monday and Tuesday brought together representatives from more than 100 countries to discuss how to reach a consensus on guiding the ...

  • US, UK crack down on Russian bulletproof hosting service ZServers for LockBit partnership

    February 12, 2025

    Russia-based bulletproof hosting services provider (BPH) ZServers has been sanctioned by the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom for its alleged involvement with the LockBit ransomware group. In a press release, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said ZServers was providing services to threat actors responsible for the Medibank Private breach that happened in October 2022. ...

  • Huge cyber attack under way – 2.8 million IPs being used to target VPN devices

    February 10, 2025

    A wide range of Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other networking devices are currently under attack by threat actors trying to break in to wider networks, experts have warned. Threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation warned about the ongoing attack on X, noting someone is currently using roughly 2.8 million different IP addresses to try and ...