Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

Spyware 106

Spyware Cyber Insurance Hacking Advertising 106

Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Advertisers are seeing the end of the tracking cookie on the horizon and it’s coming closer. And the usual income for most of those sites comes from advertising. Why the ISP providers feel that it is part of their job description to enable targeted advertising escapes me. The end of the tracking cookie. Hiding consent.

Advertising 112

Advertising Internet Internet Mobile 112

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG) ” states CERT/CC. . ” states CERT/CC. CERT/CC also published Vulnerability Note VU#132380 with a comprehensive list of affected vendors, and guidance to mitigate the issues.

Firmware 115

Firmware DNS Advertising Architecture 115

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Anything that is connected to internet is targeted with advertisements and cannot be trusted for online privacy”, says Fredrick Flambolt, a researcher working independently on a Google related Cybersecurity project on connected devices.

Retail 101

Retail Advertising Media Internet 101

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2019

In this case, attackers used a common HTML5 attribute, the <a> tag ping, to trick these users to unwittingly participate in a major DDoS attack that flooded one web site with approximately 70 million requests in four hours.” This was the first case of a DDoS attack using the <a> tag ping attribute.

DDOS 111

DDOS Advertising Social Engineering Mobile 111

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. The GTM tag management system allows developers to inject JavaScript and HTML content within their apps for tracking and analytics purposes. Make frequent backups of important data.

Advertising 96

Advertising VPN Backups Cryptocurrency 96

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The funding project aims to be transparent, any donors can track how that money is being used by the foundation, the Tor Project will tag any bug tickets that utilize the money of the fund with the “BugSmashFund” tag. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Here’s how.”

Advertising 86

Advertising Cryptocurrency Information Security 86

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Bwloe the full changelog since Tor Browser 8.5: All platforms Update Torbutton to 2.1.10 Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Tor Browser 8.5.1, Tor Project).

Advertising 92

Advertising Mobile Information Security 92

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

. “In the summer of 2020, Google determined that Glupteba malware was being disseminated on numerous third-party software download sites, online movie streaming sites, and video downloader sites, often advertised as “free downloads.” TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers.

Backups 118

Backups Advertising Accountability Malware 118

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

The Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Hacking 100

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The skimmer uses an image GET request, but unlike other skimmers instead of loading and then immediately removing the image tag, Pipka sets the onload attribute of the image tag. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

eCommerce 79

eCommerce Accountability Advertising Cybercrime 79

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Each Webkinz toy has an attached tag with a unique “Secret Code” printed on it that allows you to play with your pet in the “ Webkinz World” website. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Hacking 118

Hacking Passwords Data breaches Advertising 118

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A report published by the Google Threat Threat Analysis Group (TAG) speculates that the attack was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

DDOS 102

DDOS DNS Advertising Engineering 102

Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

For lower level users, WordPress does not sanitize them for usage as HTML tag attributes. The code in the last line shows output as HTML tag attributes that are not being escaped. ” reads the analysis” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Authentication 74

Authentication Advertising Information Security Hacking 74

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Lecigne and Google’s TAG did not disclose the technical details of the exploit. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Internet 83

Internet Internet Engineering Advertising 83

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

The initial JavaScript loads the skimming code included in the EXIF metadata of the favicon.ico using an <img> tag, and specifically via the onerror event. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Advertising 99

Advertising Hacking Software Information Security 99

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

The first information tag “ prog.params ” is immediately retrieved in the instruction “ HandlerParams.Start() ” seen in Figure 4. The malware tries to find the id of the mutex, declared inside the relative tag seen in code snippet 2, inside the “%TEMP%” folder. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Malware 103

Malware Advertising Cybercrime Internet 103

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

This operation has been shut down through a private takedown led by HUMAN, protecting the entire programmatic advertising ecosystem from this cybercriminal organization. HUMAN worked closely with its partners in the Human Collective to get additional insight into traffic volumes and verification tags they were using on their ads.

Advertising 59

Advertising Cybercrime CISO Education 59

Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

” The above issue can become a security issue since administrators of a WordPress blog are allowed to use arbitrary HTML tags in comments, even <script> tags. Below the timeline shared by the expert: Date What 2018/10/24 Reported that it is possible to inject more HTML tags than should be allowed via CSRF to WordPress.

Hacking 91

Hacking Advertising Technology 91

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These browser push notifications are a very annoying type of advertising, often associated with tech support scams, explicit content, gambling, and anything else that pays a handsome referral bonus. Several attempts on both images led to different domains as well.

Scams 137

Scams Passwords Identity Theft Accountability 137

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

IoT 138

IoT Internet Internet Hacking 138

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action se ” reads the security advisory published by Apache. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Advertising 72

Advertising Hacking 72

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

directory files, we can force the file to evaluate some of the entries within the [Desktop Entry] tag.” “Some of the entries in this tag include “Icon”, “Name”, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. desktop and. ” the expert added.

Advertising 93

Advertising Software Hacking Information Security 93

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The XSS occurs when the sanitized links are processed via vsprintf(), an additional double quote is injected into the <i> tag allowing for an attribute injection. “As can be seen in the above table, the tag is replaced with a %1s and the user input string is then sanitized. ” continues the post. and 2.1.17. and 2.1.18.

Authentication 85

Authentication Advertising Technology Banking 85

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

RFID Feature: One clue still left (from a hardware security POV) was about the RFID tag. From the opening of the case, it was visibly obvious that the RFID feature advertised by Hideez was not related to the NRF52, but was rather just a standalone re-writable tag. At this point, I will let the good-old Arny express my feelings.

Firmware 102

Firmware Passwords Password Management Encryption 102

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited number of hacked websites used in watering hole attacks against iPhone users. Earlier this year Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

Hacking 84

Hacking Spyware Advertising Mobile 84

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

“An attacker could use this vulnerability to replace a HTML tag like with malicious Javascript. This would cause the malicious code to execute on nearly every page of the affected site, as nearly all pages start with a HTML tag for the page header, creating a significant impact if successfully exploited.”

Hacking 129

Hacking Accountability Advertising Authentication 129

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The third-party library can perform ad fraud by clicking advertisements in the background without the user’s consent. “The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.”

Data collection 98

Data collection Mobile Malware Education 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2020

” The tweets began around 3 pm PST and continued throughout the day, several messages used the N-word and tagged other Twitter accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Source reclaimthenet.org.

Hacking 67

Hacking Accountability Advertising Media 67

Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Crooks used a script in the call optimization services to check a specific tag in the scam URL, then the script retrieves the scammer’s phone number from the service’s servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .”

Scams 49

Scams Advertising Malware Cybercrime 49

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Even if AMP4Email implements a strong validator that only allows a list of tags and attributes in dynamic mails, it doesn’t implement a validation system to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Advertising 96

Advertising Information Security Hacking 96

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related to state-backed attacks and revealed that it has identified more than a dozen state-sponsored groups using COVID-19 lures. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes Google. Pierluigi Paganini.

Phishing 133

Phishing Government Accountability Advertising 133

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

” Recently Google TAG has published its first TAG quarterly report , the Q1 2020 TAG Bulletin , that provides insights on the campaigns monitored in the first quarter of 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Dark basin, hacking).

Hacking 100

Hacking Phishing Accountability Media 100

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-6287" for a full list of source IP addresses and relevant indicators. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Mass scanning activity started around 2020-07-15T17:48:37Z.

Internet 83

Internet Internet Advertising Accountability 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The Baka loader works by dynamically adding a script tag to the current page that loads a remote JavaScript file. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Baka e-skimmer).

eCommerce 137

eCommerce Malware Encryption Advertising 137

Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-0688" to locate hosts conducting scans. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. pic.twitter.com/Kp3zOi5AOA — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) February 25, 2020.

Authentication 141

Authentication Advertising Hacking Malware 141

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

RCE + LPE exploits without persistence for iMessage and WhatsApp could be rewarded with a $1,500,000 payout (+50% previous price tag). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states Zerodium. Pierluigi Paganini.

Advertising 92

Advertising Architecture Mobile Marketing 92