Texas botnet herder pleads guilty

The malicious service is advertised to evade detection and closely mimic a real login page.

Threat actors have exploited 159 CVEs during the first three months of 2025, compared with 151 during the last quarter of 2024, with almost a third of vulnerabilities leveraged in attacks within a day of their disclosure, according to The Hacker News.

Attacks involving ransomware were discovered by NCC Group to have totaled 600 in March which is 32% lower than in February but 46% higher than the same month last year with the month-to-month decline believed by NCC Head of Threat Intelligence Matt Hull to be a "red herring" after the recent surge in intrusions, Infosecurity Magazine reports.