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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of attacks from nation-state actors. Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. election. .

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Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020

Security Affairs

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. “So far in 2021, we’ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this time in 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

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. Read Google's official TAG blog to learn more about the technical details.

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Microsoft Triples Its Bug Bounty Payouts

SecureWorld News

That price tag has tripled in only 12 months. NEW: Election Guard Bounty Program, launched October 2019. NEW: Xbox Bounty Program, launched January 2020. NEW: Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, launched May 2020. Windows Insider Preview Bounty Program, updated July 2020. million for bug bounties.

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Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that remained under the radar for 7 years

Security Affairs

Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. BellTroX’s slogan is: ‘you desire, we do!’”.

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Deepfake Zelenskyy video surfaces on compromised websites

Malwarebytes

The buildup to the US election was peppered by “any moment now…” style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. Back in 2020, some people argued whether it was helpful to tag static images as deepfakes , and whether it was perhaps more useful to flag them as “cheapfakes” as a way to cleanly separate them from video content.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. In addition, bitcoin ended 2020 at around $28,000 and quickly rose to a peak of $40,000 in January 2021. In 2020, OFAC announced that they would supervise any payment to ransomware groups. Definitely yes.