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

APRIL 7, 2023

Apple released emergency security updates to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities impacting iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Apple has released emergency security updates to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-28205 and CVE-2023-28206, impacting iPhones, Macs, and iPads.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 17, 2022

Most recently, it’s reported that Ohio has proposed a new bill in relation to electronic tagging devices. Using tech to find missing items is nothing new. Using tech to find missing items is nothing new. She only became aware of what was happening because her phone alerted her to the tag’s presence.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Reuters also learned that the company’s address in California does not exist, and that two LinkedIn accounts for Pushwoosh employees in Washington, D.C. Reuters also learned that the company’s address in California does not exist, and that two LinkedIn accounts for Pushwoosh employees in Washington, D.C.

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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. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers uncovered a campaign conducted by a China-linked threat actor targeting Indian power grid organizations. ” reads the advisory published by Recorded Future.

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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. NOTE 2- Microsoft, the Windows OS tech giant, identifies the group as Zinc and labeled it as a confirmed nation behind the launch of May 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Attack that infected over 250,000 computers across the world.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

The primary algorithms that are shared between different versions of Xloader are the following: Custom RC4: an RC4-based algorithm with two additional layers based on subtraction operations. Key Points Xloader is a popular information stealing malware family that is the successor to Formbook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

“The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.” The collected data is sent to the C2 server every two days, but the cycle depends on the remote configuration. ” reads the analysis published by the security firm.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I'm going to come to the defence of the simple typeface in this blog, starting with an explanation of what we're actually seeing here - homoglyphs : In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar. DNSes are case-insensitive). — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2019

In this case, attackers used a common HTML5 attribute, the <a> tag ping, to trick these users to unwittingly participate in a major DDoS attack that flooded one web site with approximately 70 million requests in four hours.” This was the first case of a DDoS attack using the <a> tag ping attribute.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Earlier this year, Lecigne reported two zero-day vulnerabilities , a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome ( CVE-2019-5786 ) and an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows ( CVE-2019-0808 ) that were exploited together in the wild.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yet, I’m certainly not immune to the clutter and skewed perspectives these tech giants throw at me on an hourly basis — as they focus myopically on monetizing my digital footprints. I don’t know what I’d do without my tech tools, but I also have a foreboding sense that I spend way too much with them. I’m productive.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

“During our research, we came across two instances of malicious image files being uploaded to a Magento-hosted server. . “During our research, we came across two instances of malicious image files being uploaded to a Magento-hosted server. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. business/data[.]php?p=form.

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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. However, disabling these two cannot fully protect users from any spyware or zero-click attacks, the researchers said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Tags available to all @GreyNoiseIO users now – Create an account to deploy a dynamic block list to block it [link] pic.twitter.com/xXldngWdPH — Andrew Morris @ RSA (@Andrew Morris) June 4, 2022. Bleeping Computer reported that starting from Friday afternoon, a proof-of-concept exploit for this issue was publicly shared.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited number of hacked websites used in watering hole attacks against iPhone users. “Earlier this year Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT launched an arms race between tech giants. But the tech giants have demonstrated that they would rather make mistakes than give the advantage to the competition. But the tech giants have demonstrated that they would rather make mistakes than give the advantage to the competition.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Arm also published two additional vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-33200 and CVE-2023-34970.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

This threat actor has frequently updated its attack chains over the last two months. Below are examples of two such emails that were sent from the IP address 222.112.127[.]9. Zscaler’s ThreatLabz research team has been closely monitoring a campaign targeting users in South Korea. Spear phishing emails distribution.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Further investigation revealed that the Dark Basin group was behind many other attacks over the past years, including the ones that hit at least two American advocacy groups who were requesting that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) preserve net-neutrality rules in the U.S., .” reads the report published by Citizen Lab.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 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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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

The authors of the Purple Fox EK have integrated two new exploits for Microsoft vulnerabilities to the Purple Fox EK. The Purple Fox EK continues to be improved by its authors that implemented two new exploits for Microsoft critical- and high-severity Microsoft vulnerabilities. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint. .

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2021

If someone secretly hides a tag in your possessions, your phone will notice and warn you about it. One, purchasing a capable device could be expensive, and two, the actual devices that can be tracked are rather easy to find, even to unsuspecting victims. That’s not to say that it’s a bad thing; it just needs to be thorough.”.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But hold your horses, because in the midst of this tech utopia, there’s a lurking menace we need to address – prompt injection. Ah, the marvels of technology – where Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as the golden child, promising solutions to problems we didn’t know we had. What is AI and what are its uses? Breaking Free!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2019

Three out of seven critical issues affect the ChakraCore scripting engine in the Edge browser, two affect Microsoft’s Hyper-V server virtualization environment, one impacts Edge, and one affects the Windows DHCP client. Tag CVE ID CVE Title.NET Framework CVE-2019-0545.NET

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Most people who use internet-connected devices are far from being tech-savvy experts. Cybersecurity experts have spent the last two decades emphasizing the importance of strong passwords and not clicking on malicious links in emails. If you take a look at the global market for IoT, you can easily spot the trend. Misconfiguration.

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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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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Martin joins The Hacker Mind to discuss this and his earlier Bluetooth vulnerability research, including the Car Whisperer and the Tesla Radar. Vamosi: I once wrote about a petty car thief in Prague, Czech Republic who started the usual way by using scissors to cut the wires and hotwire the engine to drive away. So entropy, randomization.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 8, 2021

we now also support it on the VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview thanks to the 5.14 The summary of the changelog since the 2021.3 we supported installing Kali Linux on Parallels on Apple Silicon Macs, well with 2021.4, kernel having the modules needed for the virtual GPU used.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

The video game industry is soaring, not in the least thanks to the lockdowns, which forced people to look for new ways to entertain themselves and socialize. Even with things going back to normal, gaming is expected to have a very bright future. Newzoo estimates the industry to gross 175.8 Newzoo estimates the industry to gross 175.8 Methodology.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

After stepping up to help Black Hat with the network at Black Hat Asia , we had only two and a half months until Black Hat USA , in Las Vegas, 6-11 August 2022. In part one of this issue of our Black Hat USA NOC (Network Operations Center) blog, you will find: Adapt and Overcome. Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta.

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Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ] and builds off of the mid-year 2022 review. Although a 40% drop might seem like a clear-cut win for improving security, the reality is more complicated. Bug collisions are high.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 21, 2022

APT41 exploits Log4Shell vulnerability to compromise at least two US state governments. Shortly after the advisory, the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group APT41 exploited Log4Shell to compromise at least two US state governments, according to research from Mandiant. How does it work, you ask?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a moment we'll hear from two hackers who spoke at Black Hat USA 2021. In this episode, we're going to talk about two terms in particular, intimate partner violence, or IPv is akin to domestic abuse, where someone you live with may be causing emotional or physical violence. And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Hashing algorithms provide an efficient means of comparing two files and establishing if their contents is the same due to the deterministic nature of the algorithm (the same input always produces the same output). It works beautifully; it's ridiculously fast, efficient and above all, anonymous.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

An application penetration tester by trade, Ilia Kolochenko founded his first cybersecurity consulting firm named High-Tech Bridge in 2007. Ilia successfully exited High-Tech Bridge and launched ImmuniWeb in 2019 with Kolochenko as the CEO and Chief Architect. Product summary. ImmuniWeb occupies an interesting space in the ASM market.

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Penetration Testing DNS Mobile Marketing 57

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. Let me explain why and how.

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