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Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life.

The Internet Archive (Archive.org), home to the Wayback Machine, is temporarily offline due to a reported power outage.…

Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.

A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration's continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment -- presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email.

ChatGPT Down: Users report "Gateway time-out" errors. OpenAI's popular AI chatbot is experiencing widespread outages. Stay updated on the service disruption.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Cybersecurity tips to protect your cryptocurrency from hackers, scams, and fraud. Learn best practices for securing digital assets…

Plus: A nominee to lead CISA emerges, Elon Musk visits the NSA, a renowned crypto cracking firm’s secret (and problematic) cofounder is revealed, and more.

### Summary There are 2 new Critical Signature Wrapping Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25292, CVE-2025-25291) and a potential DDOS Moderated Vulneratiblity (CVE-2025-25293) affecting ruby-saml, a dependency of omniauth-saml. The fix will be applied to ruby-saml and released 12 March 2025, under version 1.18.0. Please [upgrade](https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/blob/master/omniauth-saml.gemspec#L16) the ruby-saml requirement to v1.18.0. ### Impact Signature Wrapping Vulnerabilities allows an attacker to impersonate a user.

Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.