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Over the past few years, cyberattacks have escalated to unprecedented heights. Just last year, in 2024, 94% of organizations reported being the victims of phishing attacks. And in the first five weeks of 2025, ransomware attacks increased by 149% in the first 5 weeks of 2025. Organizations and users need help understanding and navigating these changing risks to fight against the rising tide of cybercrimes. Thankfully, that is exactly what The OWASP Foundation aims to do.

A critical improper authorization vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) in Next.js, tracked as CVE-2025-29927, was publicly disclosed on March 21, 2025. Next.js is a popular React-based web framework used for building full-stack applications. This vulnerability impacts applications that utilize middleware for authorization checks. Middleware functions used to implement access control, session validation, redirects, or security headers on incoming HTTP requests.

At Denver's SnowFROC, security pros tackled the importance of OWASP’s evolving Top 10 and exposed the current shortcomings of AI-generated code for production systems.

After implementing a DevSecOps strategy from the ground up — including secure design, testing and monitoring, and risk-based remediation — you will need to focus on analysis and governance. After all, organizations need to regularly measure and refine their security processes to mature their DevSecOps programs.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team. Here’s what you need to know from March about espionage activities by threat actors Green Nailao and UNC3886.

The sheer volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is overwhelming. In 2024, there were 39,998 CVEs — an average of 109.28 per day! This constant stream of new threats makes it increasingly difficult for security teams to keep up. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a possible solution, helping automate vulnerability investigation and prioritisation, allowing teams to more efficiently assess and respond to emerging risks. Do you even have time to skim over 109 CVEs a day?

CVE-2025-1974 is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Kubernetes’ Ingress-NGINX Controller that allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives, potentially leading to full cluster compromise. Ingress-NGINX is a software-only ingress controller provided by the Kubernetes project. Because of its versatility and ease of use, ingress-nginx is quite popular: it is deployed in over 40% of Kubernetes clusters.

The terms “patch management” and “vulnerability management“ are not the same. And that difference is a big difference. They may be confused because applying patches is one of the many ways to mitigate cyber risks. However, it is one piece of the entire vulnerability management puzzle and organizations that do not realize this are burdened with a false sense of security.