Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs was supported by ISPs to spy on users. TAG researchers tracked more than 30 vendors selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to nation-state actors. ” continues the analysis. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft is working on boosting Exchange Online phishing protection capabilities by adding support for external email message tags to its cloud-based email service. [.].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In recent attacks, the group was observed exploiting a XSS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5631 , by sending a specially crafted email message. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com The analysis of the email HTML source code revealed the presence of a SVG tag at the end, which contains a base64-encoded payload.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The Google TAG uses uncovered phishing attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. “ However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.” In one case observed by the TAG team.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a comprehensive open-source messaging and collaboration platform that provides email, calendaring, file sharing, and other collaboration tools. ” The vulnerability is reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that was discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ll miss him so much” In all the posts I’ve seen, one of my Facebook friends was tagged. How to avoid Facebook scams In this case I was able to spot the scam because it made me suspicious that two unrelated friends might be tagged in a similar post. But there are some other pointers to help you spot Facebook scams.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Spyware Cyber Insurance Hacking Advertising 106

Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. government.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

At a high level, implementation of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard can be done simply and easily for outgoing mail by adding a text file to an organization’s DNS record. To avoid issues, we need to understand the DMARC record tags in detail.

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SecureBlitz

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The Security For Everyone (S4E) team detected a Google Chrome Zero-day vulnerability tagged CVE-2021-30573 in Google’s latest version of the Chrome browser. This discovery was made after the S4E team ran a very long warning message in the options part of Google.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. The ever-changing landscape of rapid communication via instant messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Signal, WeChat, Telegram, and others, has left regulated industries to find a balance between compliance and efficient client communication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG) ” states CERT/CC. . ” states CERT/CC. CERT/CC also published Vulnerability Note VU#132380 with a comprehensive list of affected vendors, and guidance to mitigate the issues.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2022

One such Google Docs revamp is the “tag tool” which fetches lists of recommended people. Around October 2020, spam messages via Google Docs came to light. Spammers figured out they were able to send messages via tagging to “nearly any email address” (as per this article ). So far, so good. Filtering out the rogues.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. When they did, attackers sent them phishing links in follow-on correspondence.".

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “SVG images are constructed using XML, allowing them to be placed within HTML using ordinary XML markup tags. Talos has identified malicious emails featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that themselves contain HTML <script> tags. Including script tags within a SVG image is a legitimate feature of SVG.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

According to Reuters, at least victims of the leak confirmed the authenticity of the messages and revealed they were targeted by Russia-linked hackers. ” reported the Reuters. “Dearlove said that the emails captured a “legitimate lobbying exercise which, seen through this antagonistic optic, is now subject to distortion.””

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

QR codes are everywhere: you can see them on posters and leaflets, ATM screens, price tags and merchandise, historical buildings and monuments. And yet you don’t see lots of QR codes in email: users often read messages on their phones without any other device handy for scanning.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The message plays on energy price fears, similar to what we’ve seen previously. The message, which claims to be from the UK government, directs clickers to a phishing page which resembles a typical gov.uk Phone calls, emails, and random SMS messages asking for payment information are not going to be legitimate.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Not only did he see the same type of posts, but he also got a lot of Messenger messages prompting him to click a link. Malwarebytes Premium blocks the subdomain oyglk.altairaquilae.top How to recover from a Facebook scam You can recognize this type of scam because they usually tag several friends of the victim.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

tag=Inbound Threats'>Inbound Threats</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Email <a href='/blog?tag=Inbound It was harder for cybersecurity teams to keep a watchful eye on such activity with employees working from home. Increased File Sharing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And Douyin, a successor to the above stated Chinese short video app is also tagged as a global hit, as it has found a second place in the list with over 55.8 TikTok, that was developed by Chinese firm ByteDance has topped the list of most popular and downloaded apps worldwide in this year with over 57 million installs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The investigation started in November after Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks targeting macOS users in Hong Kong. Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

CVE-2022-3033 : (High) Leaking of sensitive information when composing a response to an HTML email with a META refresh tag. In combination with certain other HTML elements and attributes in the email, it was possible to execute JavaScript code included in the message in the context of the message compose document. Thunderbird.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related to state-backed attacks and revealed that it has identified more than a dozen state-sponsored groups using COVID-19 lures. The IT giant also announced to have blocked more than 240 million spam messages related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

Instead of using websites on the darknet, merchants are now operating invite-only channels on widely available mobile messaging systems like Telegram. All interaction is digital -- messaging systems and cryptocurrencies again, product moves only through dead drops.

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Cryptocurrency Marketing Surveillance Risk 206

SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ca via WebSocket by sending the application version and expecting a command with a relevant message in return. An analysis of the program code suggests that the 0x34 command should be accompanied by a message containing the IP address to connect to, the protocol to use and the message to send. akamaized[.]ca

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Software DNS Malware Mobile 85

Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Metadata can tell the whole story without ever reading the message contents; with files, Metadata can reveal additional and potentially sensitive information in addition to whatever is contained inside a file. In its most basic form, metadata is the data associated with a message but not included in its contents.

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Encryption Data collection Advertising Phishing 61

Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2023

The tale begins in May of this year, with the discovery of a malicious GitHub repository claiming to be for a zero-day attack for the Signal messaging app. This bogus offering was taken down, but the group behind the page were determined to stick around.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Modern secure email gateways (SEGs) prevent the vast majority of dodgy messages from ever ending up in users' inboxes, and most antivirus tools can identify and block content that matches known phishing templates, as well. In each scenario, the rogue message contained an HTML attachment disguised as an invoice for the target company.

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Phishing Scams Passwords Wireless 93

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced <a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint Additional Resources. Featured: .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares. The first, CVE-2023-23415 , is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) with a CVSS score of 9.8. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images?

Energy and Utilities 87

Energy and Utilities Authentication Firewall Engineering 87

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Upon the user’s submission of data into the counterfeit form, an error message is displayed. Unlike variations one and two, data exfiltration in the third variation relies on the injection of fake form that closely resembles the original payment form and overlays it.

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Retail Security Intelligence Hacking Software 115

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Security researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Google Project Zero revealed that four zero-day vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild earlier this year. ” Post by @_clem1 & @maddiestone on 4 0days TAG found this year (with IOCs!). Also thoughts on why we are seeing so many 0day in 2021.

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Surveillance Government Internet Internet 145

Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

The malware is distributed through phishing messages using a malicious attachment or a link to the malicious archive containing Bumblebee. The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Team analyzed a cyberattack that involved the Bumblebee Loader and detailed how the attackers were able to compromise the entire network.

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