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 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. The experts believe that the attack was orchestrated by a nation-state actor, but did not attribute the campaign to a specific APT group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The Google TAG uses uncovered phishing attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. “ However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.” In one case observed by the TAG team.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25, a circumstance that suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. “High CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which is the team at Google that monitors the activity of nation-state actors. The IT giant is aware that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Google warned more than 14,000 Gmail users that they have been the target of nation-state spear-phishing campaigns. On Wednesday, Google announced to have warned approximately 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted by nation-state hackers. TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. The post China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the advisory published by Recorded Future. ”concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The CVE-2021-37976 is an Information leak that resides in the core, it was reported by Clément Lecigne from Google TAG, with technical assistance from Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand from Google Project Zero on 2021-09-21. The post Google fixes 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in Chrome appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

” the company wrote in a filing with the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. The post Indian power generation giant Tata Power hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The investigation started in November after Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks targeting macOS users in Hong Kong. Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

” The vulnerability was reported by the CERT-UA and the Microsoft Incident Response, Microsoft Threat Intelligence (MSTI), suggesting that is has been exploited by a nation-state actor. This will leak the Net-NTLMv2 hash of the victim to the attacker who can then relay this to another service and authenticate as the victim.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. ” The IT giant won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the botnet, the court’s ruling sets an important legal precedent in the fight against cybercrime. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. These lures often masquerade as legitimate documents of national and organizational interest to the targets.” The post Experts uncovered a new wave of attacks conducted by Mustang Panda appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Google warns that nation-backed hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to organizations involved in the fight against the pandemic. Google is warning that nation-state actors are exploiting the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic to target health care organizations and entities involved in the fight against the pandemic.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Cybersecurity firm Volexity is warning that nation-state actors are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers tracked as CVE-2020-0688. Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-0688" to locate hosts conducting scans. CVE-2020-0688 mass scanning activity has begun. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Google announced to have taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba , it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. users were warned via Safe Browsing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Cold River APT group targeted the Brookhaven (BNL), Argonne (ANL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL). In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. While the Russia-Ukraine cyber conflict goes on, nation-state actors, crooks, and hacktivists continue to pose critical infrastructure at risk. March 13 – Anonymous sent a message to Russians: “remove Putin”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“The payment data exfiltration takes place via an <img> tag whose src parameter is changed to hxxps://terminal4.veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php The post Crooks use software skimmer that pretends to be a security firm appeared first on Security Affairs. veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php “ terminal4.veeblehosting[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

“In fact, our research shows that the top five countries affected by Shade ransomware are not Russia or nations of the former Soviet Union, they are the United States, Japan, India, Thailand, and Canada,” . “AutoFocus has a Shade ransomware tag that identifies any items associated with Shade.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

Encevo registered a complaint with the Police of the Grand Duchy and of course notified the CNPD (National Commission for Data Protection), the ILR (Luxembourg Institute of Regulation) and the competent ministries. appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Creos Luxembourg).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

. “However, a disruptive dispute over oil production between Russia and Saudi Arabia ended with an agreement at the recent meeting between the OPEC+ alliance and the Group of 20 nations, aiming to slash oil production output and balance prices.” ” reads the analysis published by Bitdefender. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

” In May 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2021

Erica Olsen, director of Safety Net at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, emphasized the sensitivities of telling anyone—particularly domestic abuse survivors—about unknown surveillance that relies on a hidden device. If someone secretly hides a tag in your possessions, your phone will notice and warn you about it.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

national interests…[and] critical infrastructure in the energy, finance and wider commercial space,” . According to Edward Amoroso, CEO of Tag Cyber , the US CYBERCOM should isolate the specific target to hit and attack it limiting the risk of any collateral damage. Securi ty Affairs – hack backs, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

This strategy is especially important against nations it sees as a threat to its regional power such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.” The attacker used an old version of Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll tagged as 15.0.0.0 Security Affairs – Jason, APT34). “APT34 conducts cyber espionage on behalf of Iran.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered campaigns targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

There is an interesting difference although, this stage builds up a new in-memory stage (let’s call Stage 4) by adding static GZIpped contents at the end of encrypted section (light blue tag on image). Security Affairs – malware). What is interesting about this new stage is in the way it reflects the old code.

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