Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The vulnerability, officially tagged as CVE-2021-44228 and called Log4Shell or LogJam, is an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability that allows total system takeover on systems running Log4j 2.0-beta9 As reported by BleepingComputer, in order to increase their chances of success, some […]. beta9 through 2.14.1. What Is Happening?

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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. ” reads the Threat Horizons April 2023 Threat Horizons Report published by Google.”The

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. In late 2015, Nick Landers, Co-Founder of Dreadnode, published a blog on the abuse of Outlook Rules for RCE. What makes that determination?”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, while reading a blog post from security vendor Akamai, we spotted a similar situation. In this blog post, we show how the newly found Kritec skimmer was found along side one of its competitors. that the skimmer was using WebSockets and is the same one as described in Akamai's blog. They also list nebiltech[.]shop

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability, officially tagged as CVE-2021-44228 and called Log4Shell or LogJam, is an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability that allows total system takeover on systems running Log4j 2.0-beta9 The post The Log4j Vulnerability Is Now Used by State-Backed Hackers appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. beta9 through 2.14.1.

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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. We will continue to update our recent blog as necessary. ” wrote Leonard.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

found a very interesting credit card stealer in a Magento environment which loads a malicious JavaScript without using any script tags. Continue reading Stylish Magento Card Stealer loads Without Script Tags at Sucuri Blog. The post Stylish Magento Card Stealer loads Without Script Tags appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” reads the TAG’s report.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=IT Finally, Office 365 DLP needs comprehensive tracking and reporting.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. According to the Google Threat Horizons report, the state-sponsored hackers sent fake job offers to employees at the security companies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered several exploit chains targeting Android, iOS, and Chrome to install commercial spyware. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. Social media profiles were quickly removed after Google reported them to the respective platforms. . ” reads the post published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

SEKOIA researchers started their investigation after the publication of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s report “ Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe ” which detailed the activity of nation-state actors against Eastern Europe. org jadlactnato.webredirect[.]org. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

Russia-linked threat actors are behind a new website that published leaked emails from leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the EU, the Reuters reported. ” reported the Reuters. ” reported the Reuters. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Inbound tag=Inbound Threats'>Inbound Threats</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Email Blog: 2020 – A Transformation Year in Cybersecurity On-Demand Webinar: Is Your Remote Workforce a Top Security Risk? .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

Both vulnerabilities were reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Donncha Ó Cearbhaill of Amnesty International’s Security Lab. Today, Apple published an emergency update for all iPhones to patch an exploit chain which we, together with @_clem1 (Google TAG) discovered in the wild. iPadOS 16.4.1,

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Microsoft, for instance, just released the 2021 Digital Defense Report pointing a finger at Russia as making up 58% of all nation-state cyberattack incidents observed by the corporation. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A collection is a live report that includes IoCs associated with a specific threat and it is available for VirusTotal registered users. The reports will also include up-to-date VirusTotal analysis metadata. Registered VirusTotal users will be able to add or remove IoCs to/from the reports. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The security firm reported its findings to Google, which notified the development teams. “The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Two of the four HotNews Notes are updates on a critical OS Command Injection vulnerability in IS-OIL that was reported to SAP by the Onapsis Research Labs earlier this year. SAP Security Note #3350297 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The New HotNews Note in Detail SAP Security Note #3411067 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. In February 2021, Insikt Group researchers reported a campaign aimed at India’s power grid that the experts attributed to China-linked threat actor RedEcho. ”concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Researchers on Thursday reported that hackers are using standard tools within Google Docs/Drive to lead unsuspecting victims to fraudulent websites, stealing credentials in the process. In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. brionv, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” states the report published by Microsoft. Attackers used Twitter profiles for sharing links to a blog under their control ( br0vvnn[.]io eXplorer.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

“As soon as the victim administrator visits the malicious website, a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) exploit is run against the target WordPress blog in the background, without the victim noticing.” This means an attacker can create comments in the name of administrative users of a WordPress blog via CSRF attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. In recent campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures. ” reads the report published by Cisco Talos. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. Featured: .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Bleeping Computer reported that starting from Friday afternoon, a proof-of-concept exploit for this issue was publicly shared. Researchers from cybersecurity firm GreyNoise reported that 23 unique IP addresses were observed exploiting the Atlassian vulnerabilities. 23 unique IPs so far. 23 unique IPs so far. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2023

This note is tagged with a CVSS score of 7.9. Updates in previously released High Priority SAP Security Notes SAP Security Note #3326210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 7.1, SAP Security Note #3102769 , tagged with a CVSS score of 8.8, SAP Note #3318657 is tagged with a CVSS score of 6.4

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. In late 2015, Nick Landers, Co-Founder of Dreadnode, published a blog on the abuse of Outlook Rules for RCE. What makes that determination?”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

The vulnerability was reported to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with responsible disclosure and was included by Microsoft in their March 2023 Patch Tuesday round. For a full analysis, feel free to ready the blog by the researchers which goes into more detail. How can we use this in a full-fletched attack?

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I highly recommend reading Andy Robbins’ blog, “ Microsoft Breach — What Happened (and What Should Azure Admins Do)? ”, or our recent video describing the breach here , to understand the full scope of what we know based on Microsoft’s transparency report. What Happened and What is the Attack Path?

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