GorillaBot Attacks Windows Devices With 300,000+ Attack Commands Across 100+ Countries
A new botnet named “GorillaBot,” has orchestrated over 300,000 attack commands across more than 100 countries within a span of just three weeks.
Built on the infamous Mirai botnet framework, GorillaBot represents a sophisticated malware evolution. It leverages advanced encryption and evasion techniques to target industries ranging from telecommunications to finance and education. {Read full article here}
Feds promote voluntary pipeline safety systems
Federal pipeline regulators are urging companies transporting oil and gas to adopt an industry-recognized process to reduce leaks, ruptures and other mishaps — although a top safety advocate questioned the voluntary approach.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that his department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an advisory bulletin encouraging utility pipeline companies to voluntarily adopt “safety management systems” for their networks. Duffy tied his call to the Trump administration’s policy of working to increase oil and gas production. {Read full article here}
U.S. Coast Guard and partners reinforce maritime security through increased operations
The U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam team, alongside partners, conducted a series of operations from March 13 to March 23, 2025, to keep the ports and approaches to Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands safe and secure. “This ten-day snapshot is a window into the continuation and increase of our routine operations to protect U.S. borders by preventing illegal goods entering or activities transpiring in the Marianas.” {Read full article here}
Every year, cybersecurity experts face new vulnerabilities. Two new reports outline the threat of geopolitical conflicts, GenAI, complex supply chains, shadow IT and more…
Why is cybercrime so hard to defeat? There’s an obvious answer. It is very lucrative.
Indeed, according to one estimate, scammers may have siphoned away $1 trillion in the past year alone. That’s equivalent to the GDP of some nations.
So, there’s a huge financial incentive for the scammers and the spammers to keep working. That said, many cybercriminals are not even doing it for the money. Instead, they’re motivated by ideology or politics. This is all contributing to a worsening risk landscape. {Read full article here}