Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

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. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We SecurityAffairs – Google TAG, state-sponsored hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2023

Way back in 1994, “ robots.txt ” was created as a polite way to let crawlers know which bits of a website they were allowed to pay a visit to. What’s aggravating site owners is that the tool is ignoring assumed good netiquette rules.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 20, 2023

It is still unclear whether the company plans to introduce a separate insurance cover with a title tag and an extra premium to bring such attacks under special cover. As of now, it offers a standard policy under which a company needs to follow all security procedures to be covered under the attack.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Bahrain government and groups linked to them—such as LULU , a known operator of Pegasus, and others like them who are associated with a separate government—were tagged as culprits of the surveillance activity. Dubbed by Citizen Lab as FORCEDENTRY, this iMessage exploit is said to have been in use since February 2021.

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. Up until this point the movie had demonstrated leadership skills, office politics, stakeholder management, and a pen test. Maybe you don’t have your team because of budget constraints, or politics, or maybe because an alien killed them all. The kind of stuff the SAS excel at.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Lastly, if you have a friend or family member who likes tagging you on every photo they upload (even if you’re not on the photo), feel free to un-tag yourself. This is not only polite, but this also demonstrates that you care about other people’s privacy, too. You won’t regret it. Start sharing with caution.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Automated classification tags enable the institution to enforce stringent access controls and encryption measures, ensuring the utmost protection for sensitive financial data. This pragmatic approach helps organizations avoid potential complexity and internal politics pitfalls.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh’s software also was found in apps for “a wide array of international companies, influential nonprofits and government agencies from global consumer goods company Unilever and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to the politically powerful U.S. Pushwoosh employees posing at a company laser tag event.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a watering hole campaign in Hong Kong, targeting journalists and pro-democracy political groups. According to TAG, more than 200 machines may have been targeted for infection at the time it discovered the campaign.). Watering hole campaign discovered by Google.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He’s been collecting and analyzing gilet jaune-themed messages on Twitter, capturing more than a quarter million English language tweets using the french “#giletjaune” hash tag. Almost all, however, do appear to be associated with far right nationalist or far left anti-capitalist political ideologies.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The attack inspired political pressure, and that subsequently led to an increase in response speed from the US government on ransomware activities. Importantly, don’t tag it to an individual by name. Tag it to a role, and that will help solve the problem of when people come and go throughout the organization.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2018

Celebrities hold an obvious allure, but there are situations where “bad actors” will work harder than any star-obsessed cyberstalker–whether we’re talking about folks trying to manipulate a criminal trial or steer a particular outcome politically. The post Is It Time for Your Employees to De-Dox Their Timelines?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

However, considering geo-political events in Eastern Europe, these attacks should serve as a strong reminder that organizations must remain on high alert against cyberattacks. Alien Labs is tracking IOCs associated with the geo-political conflict in Eastern Europe, through tagged pulses that track incident and related threat intelligence.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. Google also discloses seven coordinated political influence campaigns that took place on its platforms during Q1 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We have billionaires manipulating politics and taking joy rides into space, while advanced forms of propaganda, spread by the closed platforms we patronize, divides and confuses the populace. In essence, paths in Wildland are like tags, which allow you to organize, sort, search through, etc., Wildland’s new paradigm.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

” wrote Toni Gidwani, a Security Engineering Manager with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google pointed out that users like members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, dissidents, executives, industries such as finance or government are most exposed to the nation-state attacks, a trend confirmed during 2019.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

The internal name of the implant, as becomes apparent from PDB paths in the executable binaries, is ‘mklg’ This name perhaps stands for ‘Mark KeyLogGer’, where ‘Mark’ is an internal HTML tag used by the implant.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

Hash-tagging it "Anonymous" implies social justice, even if the whole thing is a hoax. One last note: Please keep any commentary on this blog post focused on the data and don't let it descend into politics or emotional responses.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 21, 2023

"Avoid ever showing a visual puzzle to a user" is a polite way of saying they avoid the sucky UX of CAPTCHA. As a result, we can fine-tune the difficulty of the challenge to the specific request and avoid ever showing a visual puzzle to a user. "Avoid

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced a state-sponsored threat actor had targeted security researchers. On March 31, Google TAG released an update on this activity showing another wave of fake social media profiles and a company the actor set up mid-March.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode we're not talking about Pegasus, which has been sold to nation states, and has been used by some nation states to target journalists, human rights workers and political opposition, we're not talking about external threats such as Pegasus, we're talking about internal threats that come from inside the house.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't add a meta tag. So we politely decline 😊 I know that will be an issue, in fact I suspect it will be the issue and a lot of the work we've been doing this year is to try and ease that pain to the fullest extent possible. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain. We can't upload a file.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Many of the applications had religious or political themes and were intended for Farsi, Arabic and Kurdish speakers, possibly alluding to this attack’s main targets. On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced that a North Korean-related threat actor had targeted security researchers.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is why this bug class is so pernicious – it’s easy to violate the type contract, especially in complex codebases. in the case of runtime libraries) where you can’t even enforce that RTTI is enabled.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 1, 2023

Belgium government has made an official announcement that Beijing launched cyber-attacks on a prominent MP of the nation and tagged the activity as a “Crime against Humanity”. However, there was not enough evidence to prove it, giving raise to a political strain between the two countries.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

A delegation from the NOC went to the Business Hall, politely waited for the demo to finish at the booth and had a thoughtful conversation with the person about scanning the network. The device name and location made it very easy to determine to whom it belonged in the conference attendees. Floor Plan and Location Heatmap.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2019

Facial recognition technology is improving all the time, made easier by the enormous stockpile of tagged photographs we give to Facebook and other social media sites, and the photos governments collect in the process of issuing ID cards and drivers licenses. Computers can also identify people.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2020

With an acronym like TAG, you might expect a lighthearted, playful Google group running in a field. But Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is anything but. And according to Shane Huntley , Head of TAG, the team recently uncovered some vital security intel regarding the 2020 U.S. APT groups target Trump and Biden campaigns.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

” A polite little virus, the Creeper would also try to remove itself from its host whenever it would infect a new hard drive. Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

Figure 4: Payload stored in “Company” tag of document metadata. We are not fully confident of this attribution, so we are investigating other recent samples related to the Sofacy group to better explore possible their interest in influencing political elections. Stay Tuned.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The group’s motivations are socio-political and monetary but inconsistent. Any political confrontation now inherently includes cyber-elements, as they have become a default part of any conflict, and this trend is to evolve further. Attacks are directed at public or private organizations around the globe.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

But Gab is also different, having grown dramatically in recent months as an alternative to mainstream incumbent platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and drawing a crowd primarily focused on right wing American politics. Given that an email addresses presence in the dataset potentially reveals something about that persons political beliefs?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

Google TAG revealed that China-linked cyberespionage group APT31 is targeting Biden campaign staff, while the Iran-linked APT35 group is targeting Trump campaign staff with spear-phishing attacks. . Foreign hackers are targeting campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the November US election.

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