Software Vulnerabilities and Tax Scams: Urgent Cybersecurity Insights

Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive
Using frequency analysis, and training the model with honeypot data as well as log data from legitimate websites allows for a fairly simple and reliable triage of web server logs to identify possible malicious activity.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Statistical%20Measures%20to%20Predict%20URLs%20as%20Legitimate%20or%20Intrusive%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31822
Critical Unexploitable Ivanti Vulnerability Exploited CVE-2025-22457
In February, Ivanti patched CVE-2025-22457. At the time, the vulnerability was not considered to be exploitable. Mandiant now published a blog disclosing that the vulnerability was exploited as soon as mid-march
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/
WinRAR MotW Vulnerability CVE-2025-31334
WinRAR patched a vulnerability that would not apply the Mark of the Web correctly if a compressed file included symlinks. This may make it easier to trick a victim into executing code downloaded from a website.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31334
Microsoft Warns of Tax-Related Scam
With the US personal income tax filing deadline only about a week out, Microsoft warns of commonly deployed scams that they are observing related to income tax filings
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/03/threat-actors-leverage-tax-season-to-deploy-tax-themed-phishing-campaigns/
Oracle Breach Update
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/oracle-tells-clients-of-second-recent-hack-log-in-data-stolen