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Google TAG spotted actors using new code signing tricks to evade detection

Security Affairs

Researchers from Google’s TAG team reported that financially motivated actors are using new code signing tricks to evade detection. Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group reported that financially motivated actors are using new code signing tricks to evade detection. ” read the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

The Hacker News

A number of state-back threat actors from Russia and China have been observed exploiting a recent security flaw in the WinRAR archiver tool for Windows as part of their operations.

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Google and Apple deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in Android and iOS

Google Security

Google and Apple have worked together to create an industry specification – Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers – for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both Android and iOS if such a device is unknowingly being used to track them.

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Apple and Google join forces to stop unwanted tracking

Malwarebytes

The specification, called Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers , will make it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if a device is unknowingly being used to track them. Bluetooth tag manufacturers including Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola, and Pebblebee have all said that future tags will be compatible.

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How we built the new Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind

Google Security

The keys themselves have no location capabilities, but they may have a Bluetooth tag attached. Nearby Android devices participating in the Find My Device network report the location of the Bluetooth tag. Only the Bluetooth tag owner (and those they’ve chosen to share access with) can decrypt and view the tag’s location.

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Commercial spyware vendors are behind most zero-day exploits discovered by Google TAG

Security Affairs

Google’s TAG revealed that Commercial spyware vendors (CSV) were behind most of the zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in 2023. Google’s TAG tracked the activity of around 40 CSVs focusing on the types of software they develop. ” reads the report published by Google. ” concludes Google.

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Microsoft Defender tags Office updates as ransomware activity

Bleeping Computer

Windows admins were hit today by a wave of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint false positives where Office updates were tagged as malicious in alerts pointing to ransomware behavior detected on their systems. [.].