Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. government.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google revealed that over 12,000 of its users were targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the third quarter of this year. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability, officially tagged as CVE-2021-44228 and called Log4Shell or LogJam, is an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability that allows total system takeover on systems running Log4j 2.0-beta9 The post The Log4j Vulnerability Is Now Used by State-Backed Hackers appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. beta9 through 2.14.1.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 31, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that North Korean government-sponsored hackers are once again targeting security researchers using fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts. [.].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since at least late 2019, a network of hackers-for-hire have been hijacking the channels of YouTube creators, luring them with bogus collaboration opportunities to broadcast cryptocurrency scams or sell the accounts to the highest bidder.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. ” concludes the report.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The hacker group going by the name of Everest claims to have hacked South Africa state-owned company ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. The post Everest Gang Puts $200K Price Tag on ESKOM Stolen Data appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post Everest Gang Puts $200K Price Tag on ESKOM Stolen Data appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 19, 2022

RFID uses electromagnetic fields in the form of radio waves to establish communication links between an RFID tag or transmitter and an RFID reader or receiver. Pieces of information are transmitted through the link that the reader uses to establish authenticity of the tag or transmitter and authorize access. Is RFID secure?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Ajax Bash, the Security Engineer of Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) endorsed the statement and attributed a large global campaign to a group of threat actors belonging to Kremlin based Fancy Bear (APT28).

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Hackers no longer rely solely on email when trying to infiltrate your organization. This year, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a largescale cyberattack that originated out of North Korea. Social media, including LinkedIn, have become the new preferred method of attack for these criminals.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 15, 2022

Bad actors and hackers target companies large and small, across industries and countries to gain access to it. Hackers skill-up to find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities just to try and access your […]. The post Reap the Benefits of Data Classification & Tagging appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, Lazarus Group of hackers has been indulging in such tactics from the past few weeks and has trapped so far around 60 customers and 13 employees. United States Intelligence Community has given the group as Hidden Cobra and Microsoft has tagged the name of this group as ZINC.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. response to COVID-19.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. ” reads the post published by Google TAG. The hackers employed a custom backdoor to compromise the systems of the vulnerability researchers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This property tag contained the COM GUID that we have assigned in the configuration file, which ultimately defines what COM CLSID the form was eventually registered as. Again, SensePost provides an overview of these property tags and their importance so we will refrain from re-stating the same here. What makes that determination?”

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Google's TAG team discovery: cyberattack motive.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

Now, imagine what will happen if the intensity of such attacks increases by 2000 times if/when hackers exploit a vulnerability to amplify the attack resulting in a high scale denial of service attack. now that’s interesting!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. The vulnerability has been actively exploited by the Chinese hacker group UNC4841 Chinese. Google released emergency updates to address this zero-day vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 6, 2023

Mitiga researchers recently discovered that hackers are stealing data from GCP storage buckets as the differentiating-log details are not enabled by default. However, the GCP Security team has taken a note of this incident and tagged it as a security deficiency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” reads the TAG’s report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

However, it’s official that an IT firm named Blackbaud a supplier of IT services to Labour Party Members was hacked by cyber criminals in August 2020 and details such as names, email addresses, contact numbers and annual donations made to the party were accessed by hackers through the attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. According to the Google Threat Horizons report, the state-sponsored hackers sent fake job offers to employees at the security companies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

score, tagging it as a highly severe flaw. However, there is no evidence that the flaw was exploited by hackers or any other individual across the world. HP Omen PCs that assist in high-end gaming are hitting the news headlines for all wrong reasons.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Researchers on Thursday reported that hackers are using standard tools within Google Docs/Drive to lead unsuspecting victims to fraudulent websites, stealing credentials in the process. In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. (brionv, CC BY-SA 2.0

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a report released by US Security firm Cybereason Inc, some of the top telecom companies in the world were digitally compromised by hackers sponsored by China stealing info, such as phone data and location information of telecom service users, respectively.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When it comes to nation-state hackers, Russian and Chinese operations are always in the limelight. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google TAG is already sending out warnings and alerting their user base to the threats by APT35.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Passwords are easy to steal, and hackers can use them in just a few seconds. If you’re not changing passwords regularly, you’re inviting hackers and cybercriminals to steal your company’s sensitive data. Make sure to use common, understandable labels and data value tags for your data. Use a corporate VPN.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2022

UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has released a press statement that few of its servers might have been compromised by hackers believed to be working for the Russian government. News is out that the activity was conducted in January this year when a Russian agent infiltrated a database belonging to MoD and stole critical information.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

On Wednesday, Google announced to have warned approximately 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted by nation-state hackers. Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . ” Huntley added.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

March 8 – Google TAG: Russia, Belarus-linked APTs targeted Ukraine. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. The popular hacker collective Anonymous is offering to Russian troops $52,000 in BTC for each surrendered tank. Is it fake news?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

US Treasury has endorsed the news and tagged it as one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time. The game company that is in discussion is Axie and has admitted that it has lost half a billion in currency a month ago and strongly suspects hackers from Pyongyang.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2021

Source: The Hacker News) Horticulture is an interesting sector for hackers since it is at the forefront of modern technologies. (Source: Center for International Maritime Security) Researchers found three new malware strains used by the SolarWinds group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

Now, news is out that the country is training hackers as young as 10 to become the country’s future cyber warriors. John Demers, the Assistant Attorney General at the US Department of Justice, said that North Korea hackers are becoming world leading bank robbers and disruptors of critical infrastructure. Isn’t this serious….?

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