March 12th, 2025

In March 2025, cybersecurity incidents were reported, including Chinese cyberspies backdooring Juniper routers, Mozilla warning Firefox users to update their browsers, and the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) being hit by a massive cyberattack. The attack on X, claimed by the hacktivist group Dark Storm, led to worldwide outages and the implementation of DDoS protections from Cloudflare. Meanwhile, Chinese hackers were found deploying backdoors on Juniper Networks Junos OS MX routers that are no longer receiving security updates. Mozilla cautioned Firefox users to update to the latest version to avoid security risks due to an expiring root certificate.