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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Tags and labels are essential for providing visibility, context, automation, and operational governance into modern Atomized Networks, which are made up of multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises networks. The post Tags and Labels – Make Sense of Multi-Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Premises Networks in an Atomized Network World.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Researchers from Google’s TAG team reported that financially motivated actors are using new code signing tricks to evade detection. The experts noticed that the technique was employed by operators behind OpenSUpdater, which is a known family of unwanted software . ” read the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Apple rolled out emergency security updates to backport patches for two actively exploited zero-day flaws to older devices. which address a dozen of security flaws. Apple this week rolled out emergency security updates to backport patches for two actively exploited zero-day flaws to older devices. The company released iOS 17.2

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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. The activities overlap with operations attributed to a group tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0098 [ 1 , 2 , 3 ].

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google Security

MAY 26, 2022

Posted by Anton Bikineev, Michael Lippautz and Hannes Payer, Chrome security team Memory safety in Chrome is an ever-ongoing effort to protect our users. Chrome’s use of C++ is sadly no different here and the majority of high-severity security bugs are UAF issues. Every 16 bytes of memory are assigned a 4-bit tag.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Researchers demonstrated how attackers can abuse the Windows Container Isolation Framework to bypass endpoint security solutions. Researcher Daniel Avinoam at the recent DEF CON hacking conference demonstrated how attackers can abuse the Windows Container Isolation Framework to bypass endpoint security solutions.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In March 2023, security firm Proofpoint observed the group actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. “Winter Vivern has stepped up its operations by using a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. ” concludes the report.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 19, 2022

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Physical Security. RFID uses electromagnetic fields in the form of radio waves to establish communication links between an RFID tag or transmitter and an RFID reader or receiver. Is RFID secure? Risk Level. What is RFID and what is it used for?” So what is RFID? Am I at risk?”

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These attacks have not only exposed a significant breach of security but also pose a grave threat to the data and privacy of millions of users worldwide. Zero-Day vulnerabilities refer to previously unknown security flaws that are exploited by attackers before the affected company has a chance to develop and release a software patch or fix.

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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 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Google, the business subsidiary of tech giant Alphabet Inc has released a security statement that reveals that over 50,000 users were warned about state funded attacks in this year 2021, so far.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. response to COVID-19.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As part of our strategy to enhance application awareness for SecOps practitioners, our new Secure Firewall Application Detectors portal, [link] , provides the latest and most comprehensive application risk information available in the cybersecurity space. Tags – Predefined tags that provide additional information about the application.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And while we have gained both safety and security as a result of this ability to globally track people and things, we seemed to have lost our true sense of privacy. It all began with GPS trackers back in 1994 when fully operational GPS systems began to emerge. We didn’t even communicate with the devices.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

According to a study conducted by se-curity firm Mandiant, the group has been in operation since 2018 and has now been tasked with carrying out both espionage and financially motivated attacks such as credential harvesting and social engineering.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

Experts discovered that 30 malicious Docker images with a total number of 20 million pulls were involved in cryptomining operations. Palo Alto Network researcher Aviv Sasson discovered 30 malicious Docker images, which were downloaded 20 million times, that were involved in cryptojacking operations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company released an out-of-band security update to address the remote code execution issue that can be exploited by an attacker to take control of targeted systems. This can be exploited using an object tag, which in turn can load a malicious payload from a webserver, which is then executed by the Cobalt Strike client.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Qlik Sense vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Security experts with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), who first noticed the operation in late 2019, say that the company had disrupted phishing campaigns ever since. The post Russian Threat Actors Tempt YouTubers with Bogus Paid Collaborations to Hijack their Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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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. GC2 also allows operators to download additional files from Drive onto the victim system. ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a report released by US Security firm Cybereason Inc, some of the top telecom companies in the world were digitally compromised by hackers sponsored by China stealing info, such as phone data and location information of telecom service users, respectively.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

A DDoS Attack is the bombardment of fake internet traffic onto an application server, thus disrupting its operations, leading to its unavailability to genuine traffic. Assigned with an ID tag of CVE- 2023-29552, the flaw if exploited can impact over 2,000 organizations and can spill data from over 54,000 SLP instances….

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

National Cyber Security Centre(NCSC) will be performing a scheduled scan with freely available tools operating in dedicated cloud hosted environments via two IP addresses 18.17.7.246 and 35.177.10.231. Connected devices list includes routers, modems, gateways, hotspots, ethernet hubs, repeaters, bridges, and switch. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Currently, those operating in Finance, telecom, energy, transportation and all other public sectors will have to report within 24 hours of cyber attack. The new legislation will also give additional powers to Justin Trudeau in securing telecom systems against cyber security threats.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.” “All critical operational systems are functioning; however, as a measure of abundant precaution, restricted access and preventive checks have been put in place for employee and customer facing portals and touch points.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

. “In particular, neither switching to a memory safe language , such as Rust, nor using current or future hardware memory safety features, such as memory tagging , can help with the security challenges faced by V8 today.” the unix file descriptor table).” ” states Google.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. “There are no workarounds for these vulnerabilities, patching as soon as possible is highly recommended.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted.

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