Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Yet in the dev tools we see the href attribute of the hyperlink referring to an unrecognisable string of characters and the domain name within the <a> tag almost looking like a very familiar one, albeit for the fourth character. It's a misplaced sentiment as we simply have similar looking characters in different alphabets.

Phishing 362

Phishing Password Management Passwords Internet 362

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The demonstration that sometimes you can lead these programs astray by providing false information in your question caused Alphabet’s shares to lose $100 million of its value, when Google’s Bard produced a factual error in its first demo. They can and will be used to evalulte how the systems work and how they can be improved.

Banking 86

Banking Artificial Intelligence VPN Engineering 86

Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2021

If you’re not familiar with VirusTotal, it’s a service owned by Chronicle (part of Google/Alphabet). Naturally, the price tag for analyzing malware (free) is appealing to SMBs on a limited budget. And to do so, they often turn to VirusTotal. And the simplicity appeals to teams with limited resources and technical staff.

Software 70

Software Antivirus Malware Banking 70

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Alphabet Soup of Cloud Security Categories. Frankly, most of them are meeting checkboxes to make senior executives and security teams feel better — until they’re hacked. It’s a security theater, and it remains all too prevalent in our business. For more information, connect with Fugue at www.fugue.co , GitHub , LinkedIn and Twitter.

Architecture 52

Architecture Encryption Data breaches Technology 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has witnessed in its study a 250% raise in the percentage of attacks last year, i.e., 2022. Mandiant, now a security subsidiary of the Alphabet Inc’s business, said that it observed more destructive cyber-attacks on Ukraine during the first 4-6 months of the past year when compared to the previous 8 years.

Cyber Attacks 137

Cyber Attacks Internet Internet Government 137

SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The encryption used in the malware is just a simple XOR operation, and the encoding is either a substitution cipher or Base32 with a custom alphabet. The target’s UID is then encrypted, and the data is encoded with CreateSecureString. The problem. Why didn’t you catch this supply chain attack in the first place?

DNS 74

DNS Telecommunications Malware Encryption 74

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So getting cybersecurity education materials often comes with a price tag. Vamosi: A Caesar cipher, if you don't already know, is a very basic cryptographic method first used by Julius Caesar, when communicating with his troops in the field, basically, each letter in the alphabet is replaced by another letter, further down the alphabet.

Hacking 52

Hacking Education InfoSec Engineering 52

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools , exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. Source: MISP Project ). Is actually what should be executed.

DNS 85

DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 85

SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

These are hyped up through ads, hashtags, or mass tagging of users in posts, comments, or on photos. Internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attacks work by using Unicode characters that closely resemble letters in the Latin alphabet. Instagram account “giving away” free smartphones. Marketplaces.

Scams 93

Scams Phishing Social Engineering Banking 93