This Month In Security With Tony Anscombe – March 2025 Edition

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From an exploited vulnerability successful a third-party ChatGPT instrumentality to a bizarre twist connected ransomware demands, it's a wrap connected different period filled pinch impactful cybersecurity news

31 Mar 2025

As you mightiness expect, nan world of cybersecurity doesn't sleep, truthful overmuch truthful that keeping up pinch caller threats and different impactful news really feels for illustration a full-time job. This is wherever our roundup of nan month's astir impactful cybersecurity stories comes in. In nan March 2025 edition, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks at:

• how cybercriminals exploited a year-old vulnerability successful a third-party ChatGPT tool to onslaught US authorities organizations,
• a bizarre twist connected ransomware demands, arsenic a scam is making nan rounds that involves letters delivered successful nan mail to firm executives and claiming to travel from a ransomware group,
• this month's Patch Tuesday included patches for arsenic galore arsenic six zero-day vulnerabilities successful Microsoft products that attackers are actively exploiting successful nan wild,
• a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study according to which Americans lost US$12.5 billion to online fraud successful 2024, which represents a 25-percent summation from nan twelvemonth before,
• a warning by nan UK National Cyber Security Centre for businesses and governments to hole for quantum machine hacking by 2035

Make judge to besides watch nan February 2025 version of nan roundup. 

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