Heimadal Security

MARCH 31, 2022

According to the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), a great number of threat actors are currently exploiting the event of the Russian invasion in Ukraine to launch phishing and malware cyberattacks against Eastern European and NATO countries. The cyberattacks also target Ukraine.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Even phishing page domain name can often look like the real web address of a certain brand, as cybercriminals include the name of the company or service they are posing as in the URL.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 30, 2022

The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says more and more threat actors are now using Russia's war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. [.].

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 8, 2022

A broad range of threat actors, including Fancy Bear, Ghostwriter, and Mustang Panda, have launched phishing campaigns against Ukraine, Poland, and other European entities amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the latest activity, said the attack chains leverage PDFs as decoy documents to trigger the infection sequence. The lures are

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. Google TAG researcher Clément Lecigne discovered the zero-day in June while investigating targeted attacks against Zimbra’s email server. ” reads the advisory published by Google TAG.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an […]. On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

Executive Summary On February 09, 2023, EclecticIQ analysts identified a spear phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian government entities like the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) and Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). The SMTP server contained a web panel designed to create and distribute spear phishing emails.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

According to Avanan blog, once the attacker publishes the lure, “Google provides a link with embed tags that are meant to be used on forums to render custom content. The attacker does not need the iframe tags and only needs to copy the part with the Google Docs link.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybercriminals devised a new phishing technique that leverages the Morse code to hide malicious URLs and bypass defense. Experts spotted a new targeted phishing campaign that leverages a new obfuscation technique based on the Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment and bypass secure mail gateways and mail filters.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 20, 2023

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been monitoring and disrupting Russian state-backed cyberattacks targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure in 2023. [.]

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The tag-team campaign serves up ransomware known as Mortal Kombat, which borrows the name made famous by the video game, and Laplas Clipper malware, a clipboard stealer. An “unidentified actor” is making use of these two malicious files to cause combo-laden mayhem on desktops around the world, according to new research from Talos.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

After the initial delay, the malicious app opens phishing sites in Chrome. The content of the phishing sites varies—some are harmless sites used simply to produce pay-per-click, and others are more dangerous phishing sites that attempt to trick unsuspecting users. Deeper analysis using LogCat. ChromeTabbedActivity t11780}.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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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. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

Researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have published their findings about a group they have dubbed Coldriver. These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

Google has blocked a phishing campaign conducted by China-linked group APT31 aimed at Gmail users associated with the U.S. Google announced to have blocked a phishing campaign originating conducted by China-linked cybereaspionage group APT31 (aka Zirconium , Judgment Panda, and Red Keres) and aimed at Gmail users associated with the U.S.

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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. The attack chain associated with ARCHIPELAGO starts with phishing emails that embed malicious links.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We SecurityAffairs – Google TAG, state-sponsored hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine’s government for intelligence purposes. Below is the tweet published by TAG chief, Shane Huntley, who cited the Google TAG Security Engineer Billy Leonard. ” wrote Leonard. China is working hard here too. government.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. The new distribution method was spotted by Cisco Talos, which said it identified fraudulent email messages featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that incorporate HTML script tags.

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Threatpost

MAY 29, 2020

Google TAG report reveals that "hack for hire" firms are tapping into the coronavirus pandemic via WHO phishing lures.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday said it's tracking more than 270 government-backed threat actors from more than 50 countries, adding it has approximately sent 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts to customers since the start of 2021.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Google revealed to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers since January. Google announced to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That's according to a new report published by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which said it disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware to Windows systems using SVG files. Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware using a new technique that leverages Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments.

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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). Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that some former members of the Conti cybercrime group were involved in five different campaigns targeting Ukraine between April and August 2022. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” concludes TAG.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to Google, YouTube influencers have been targeted with password-stealing malware in a phishing campaign allegedly conducted by Russian-speaking cybercriminals. According to them, the YouTube creators have been targeted […].

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

We intended to come back to this research as we felt that Outlook features a vast, underexplored attack surface and our repeated success on engagements over the last couple of years with Device Code phishing/vishing was the final push we needed. are displayed through a form structure in an “inspector window”. What makes that determination?”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Google warned more than 14,000 Gmail users that they have been the target of nation-state spear-phishing campaigns. Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, spear-phishing).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The analysis of the email HTML source code revealed the presence of a SVG tag at the end, which contains a base64-encoded payload. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com com and had the subject Get started in your Outlook. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization.

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