Heimadal Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

At the end of 2021 proof-of-concept exploits for a significant zero-day vulnerability discovered in the widely used Apache Log4j Java-based logging library were distributed online, exposing both home users and businesses to continuous remote code execution assaults.

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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. links sent over SMS to users.

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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. government.

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Google Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. MTE is now available on some OEM devices (as noted in a recent blog post by Project Zero) with Android 14 as a developer option, enabling developers to use MTE to discover memory safety issues in their application easily. Feature can be activated by developers.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

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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. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The security updates include patches for Azure , Microsoft Edge, Office , SharePoint Server , SysInternals , and the.NET framework.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP Patch Day: December 2023 ltabo Tue, 12/12/2023 - 11:47 Important Patch for SAP BTP Security Services Integration Libraries Highlights of December SAP Security Notes analysis include: December Summary - Seventeen new and updated SAP security patches released, including four HotNews Notes and four High Priority Notes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. See Microsoft’s blog post on the Exchange Server updates for more details.

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Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Posted by Will Harris, Chrome Security Team Chromium's sandboxed process model defends well from malicious web content, but there are limits to how well the application can protect itself from malware already on the computer. This blog will also show how the logging works in practice by testing it against a python password stealer.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. is being actively exploited. Office documents? all of them?)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

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

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

SAP Patch Day: January 2024 ltabo Tue, 01/09/2024 - 12:44 Highlights of January SAP Security Notes analysis include: January Summary —12 new and updated SAP security patches released, including three HotNews Notes and four High Priority Notes SAP HotNews Notes —Additional SAP solution and existing custom applications based on node.js

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

VirusTotal announced VirusTotal Collections, a new service that allows security researchers to share sets of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). A collection is a live report that includes IoCs associated with a specific threat and it is available for VirusTotal registered users. ” reads the announcement published by Virus Total.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. ” reads a blog post published by Facebook. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 371 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. 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.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2023

SAP Security Patch Day June 2023 Laura Cabrera Tue, 06/13/2023 - 16:30 Cross-Site Scripting Never Gets Old Highlights of June SAP Security Notes analysis include thirteen new and updated SAP security patches released, including four High Priority Notes. The second new High Priority SAP Security Note is #3301942.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Last month’s $125 million Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) fine combined with the $75 million U.S. While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. Related: Why third-party risks are on the rise. These views were echoed in a CFTC release as well. Seeking relevancy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

Security researcher Simon Scannell from RIPS Technologies, has discovered a new CSRF vulnerability in WordPress, that could potentially lead to remote code execution attacks. Scannell demonstrated the attack that relies on multiple flaws, including: WordPress doesn’t implement CSRF validation when a user posts a new comment.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Researchers at Orca Security disclosed how they found a remote code execution vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer. 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.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When users first install this malicious app, it takes a couple of days before it begins to display malicious behavior. 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.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. Read more of the details for yourself on Google’s Threat Analysis blog. Faking legitimate code signatures: how does it work?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that was created to pay developers that will address critical security and privacy issues in the popular anonymizing network. This work includes responding quickly to security bugs, improving test coverage, and keeping up with Mozilla’s ESRs. ” concludes the announcement.

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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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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

All of these threat actors and business intelligence collectors continue to manipulate, and even exploit, end-user client-side browser vulnerabilities for ill-gotten gain and often under the guise of gathering ‘critical user business intelligence.’. html tags, and links to 3rd party sources, end-user telemetry recording, etc.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

based company that provides code for software developers to profile smartphone app users based on their online activity, allowing them to send tailor-made notifications. The Army told Reuters it removed an app containing Pushwoosh in March, citing “security concerns.” Pushwoosh employees posing at a company laser tag event.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information Consequently, the challenge for most organizations now is: how do we share data safely and securely?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Recently, a security researcher released a zero-day stored XSS vulnerability in WordPress, meaning it was previously undisclosed and, at the time, unpatched. Given a previously approved comment , an attacker could create a malformed comment using approved HTML tags and tack on 64 kb of any character (perl -e ‘print “a” x 64000’).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

. “It has low complexity, uses the network vector, and requires no privilege to use, but it needs user interaction, such as using a phishing email to convince the victim to visit a malicious server share or website,” Walters said. “With a long list of Windows 10 and 11 impacted (in addition to Win 8.0,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Defense strategies have evolved as hackers have changed their schemes, and one new approach companies are putting into practice for their security plan is data-centric security. How you choose to authenticate users is up to you. Implementing data-centric security.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Security experts discovered a vulnerability in the popular Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome can be exploited to steal sensitive data from sites visited by users. Security experts at browser security firm Guardio discovered a critical universal cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome.

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