Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. The surge is coming from numerous malware families, including AuroraStealer, IcedID, Meta Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Vidar, Formbook, and XLoader.

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Penetration Testing Lab

JANUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft search protocol enables clients to initiate connections against an enterprise search service such as SharePoint or WebDav. During these search connections the protocol server… Continue reading → Initial Access – search-ms URI Handler

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2024

Researchers warn threat actors are manipulating GitHub search results to target developers with persistent malware. Checkmarx researchers reported that t hreat actors are manipulating GitHub search results to deliver persistent malware to developers systems. ” reads the report published by Checkmarx. ” concludes the report.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 11, 2024

Cybercriminals, demonstrating both ingenuity and malice, have initiated a campaign that manipulates GitHub’s search functionality to distribute... The post GitHub Search Sabotaged: Malware Hidden in Popular Repositories appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. PimEyes’ CEO Giorgi Gobronidze told the New York Times that it has taken technical measures to block such searches as part of a “no harm policy.”

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Explore search services beyond Google and Bing for a wider range of results, customization and privacy options. The post How to expand your search sources appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 25, 2024

Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. [.]

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SecureBlitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Here is the Surfshark Search Review. It could be something as simple as the definition of a word or as complex as the solution to a physics […] The post Surfshark Search Review 2024 appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity. Read on to learn more.

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Cybersecurity 84

Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. Google has for years accepted requests to remove certain sensitive data such as bank account or credit card numbers from search results.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot Bard are being indexed in Google search results. As an illustration of why people might be worried, after an update to Bard , users found Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages.

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Ransomware 137

ZoneAlarm

APRIL 15, 2024

Scammers employ various tactics to deceive job seekers, with the ultimate goal of obtaining money, personal information, … The post Job Scams The Silent Snare in Employment Searches appeared first on ZoneAlarm Security Blog.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 18, 2023

Google Search is currently suffering a partial outage that prevents the search engine from returning search results for some people. [.]

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Engineering 106

SecureBlitz

JANUARY 28, 2024

Here is the Surfshark Search Review. Google records about 9 […] The post Surfshark Search Review 2024 appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity. If you want to find out what you don’t know, you most likely pull out your phone and type a question on Google.

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Cybersecurity 74

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 14, 2023

As I was writing the new domain search API for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the course of this year, I was trying to explain to him how powerful APIs are: Think of HIBP as one website that does pretty much one thing; you load it in your browser and search through data breaches which then display on the screen.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked data on nearly half a million of its users, exposing their names and plain-text passwords, the Cybernews research team has found. The all-in-one real estate app MyEstatePoint Property Search left a publicly accessible MongoDB server containing the sensitive details of its app users.

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Passwords Identity Theft Mobile Technology 113

Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 3, 2023

The privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has finally introduced its own, independent image and video search capabilities, breaking free from relying on Bing and Google for media search. [.]

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2023

During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads (malvertising) and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. Distribution via malvertising The campaign targets Google searches for the remote application AnyDesk. net : The download is a digitally signed MSI installer.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 25, 2024

By mimicking legitimate websites and using fraudulent search engine optimization (SEO) tactics,... The post Beware of Search Results: Hackers Using Fake Websites to Spread Malware appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing Malware Engineering 54

The Hacker News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A new malvertising campaign has been observed capitalizing on a compromised website to promote spurious versions of PyCharm on Google search results by leveraging Dynamic Search Ads.

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Software 110

Tech Republic Security

MAY 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence art service Midjourney and Shutterstock will identify their computer-generated images in Google Search. The post Google combats AI misinformation with Search labels, adds dark web security upgrades appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The reason this happened was due to the combination of two separate factors: a compromised website and Google Dynamic Search Ads. Unbeknownst to the site owner, one of their ads was automatically created to promote a popular program for Python developers, and visible to people doing a Google search for it.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2024

However, there may be situations where you want to leverage those same datamodels you already have when running searches on your other search heads. You could enable acceleration on all your search heads, but [.] The post Enable Sharing of Datamodel Acceleration Summaries between Search Heads appeared first on Hurricane Labs.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cellphones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the country have been knocking at Google's door for at least the last two years with warrants to tap into the company's extensive stores of cellphone location data.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Security researchers have detailed a new variant of a dynamic link library (DLL) search order hijacking technique that could be used by threat actors to bypass security mechanisms and achieve execution of malicious code on systems running Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 26, 2023

Cyclops today emerged from stealth to launch a search engine platform for cybersecurity teams that makes use of metadata and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler to successfully defend organizations from cyberthreats. Fresh from raising $6.4 Fresh from raising $6.4

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Engineering Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Malware 93

Bleeping Computer

MARCH 8, 2023

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched the first beta version of DuckAssist, an AI-assisted feature that writes accurate summaries to answer users' search queries. [.]

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Engineering Technology 117

Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2023

The post Federal Appellate Court Approves ‘Pretext’ Border Search appeared first on Security Boulevard. As with most jobs of this type, Xiang had signed a non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement with his employer, agreeing not to take and/or.

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Engineering Technology Risk Government 104

Bleeping Computer

MARCH 3, 2023

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search results. [.]

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Technology 72

WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Every time someone in the UK searched for child abuse material on Pornhub, a chatbot appeared and told them how to get help.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

Its search algorithm is now the web’s omnipotent filter and its most influential amplifier, able to bring millions of eyes to pages it ranks highly, and dooming to obscurity those it ranks low. Type how to fix broken headlight into a search engine, and it returns a list of links to websites and videos that explain the process.

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SecureList

MARCH 9, 2023

At least two different stealers, Rhadamanthys and RedLine, were abusing the search engine promotion plan in order to deliver malicious payloads to victims’ machines. Threat actors then pay to promote the website in the search engine in order to push it to the top search results. store/Blender[.]rar)

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Engineering Software Malware Encryption 95

Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Google Search is timing out when users search for specific terms like "How many emojis on iOS," "How many emojis on Apple" and "How many emojis on Windows." [.].

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Technology 143

We Live Security

MAY 18, 2023

A roundup of some of the handiest tools that security professionals can use to search for and monitor devices that are accessible from the internet The post 5 useful search engines for internet‑connected devices and services appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Codenotary added machine learning algorithms to the search engine it provides for its Trustcenter platform for generating and managing SBOMs. The post Codenotary Adds Machine Learning Algorithms to SBOM Search Tool appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Engineering Software Risk Government 73

Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2022

A new Windows Search zero-day vulnerability can be used to automatically open a search window containing remotely-hosted malware executables simply by launching a Word document. [.].

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2022

The police sought and obtained more than 23 search warrants for information related to the deadly fire. The post Police Use New Keyword Search Tool in Colorado Arson Investigation appeared first on Security Boulevard. Several people were killed; others injured.

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Data privacy Risk Government Cybersecurity 123

Bleeping Computer

JUNE 8, 2022

Malware that steals your passwords, credit cards, and crypto wallets is being promoted through search results for a pirated copy of the CCleaner Pro Windows optimization program. [.].

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