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The newly found Windows shortcut vulnerability is now being actively exploited by state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors to execute covert malicious commands. According to new research conducted by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability, designated as ZDI-CAN-25373, is now being exploited by Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, and Russian threat actors for worldwide cyber espionage and data theft.

On March 21st, 2025, the Next.js maintainers announced a new authorization bypass vulnerability – CVE-2025-29927. This vulnerability can be easily exploited to achieve authorization bypass. In some cases – exploitation of the vulnerability can also lead to cache poisoning and denial of service.

On Friday morning, March 21, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. UTC, a security advisory identified as CVE-2025-29927 was published. It cited a critical 9.1 severity vulnerability for mainstream Next.js applications. Next.js versions considered vulnerable: We urge all developers to upgrade and deploy the latest version of Next.js that carries a fix to avoid suffering critical authorization bypass and other middleware logic circumvention.

On March 17th, 2025, security researchers confirmed active exploitation of Apache Tomcat’s recently disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-24813. Publicly disclosed on March 10th, the earliest signs of exploitation were observed on March 12th, with attackers leveraging the flaw just 30 hours after disclosure. This vulnerability enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) and information disclosure by exploiting Tomcat’s request-handling mechanism.