Heimadal Security

JANUARY 14, 2022

An unofficial patch was released for a privilege escalation vulnerability that has an impact on all versions of Windows after Microsoft tagged its status as “won’t fix”. The flaw is located in the Windows RPC Protocol and was dubbed RemotePotato0 by security researchers.

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Cybersecurity 121

Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 13, 2022

A privilege escalation vulnerability impacting all Windows versions that can let threat actors gain domain admin privileges through an NTLM relay attack has received unofficial patches after Microsoft tagged it as "won't fix." [.].

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. Among the zero-days are: – CVE-2021-33742 , a remote code execution bug in a Windows HTML component.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 7, 2022

Trend Micro antivirus has fixed a false positive affecting its Apex One endpoint security solution that caused Microsoft Edge updates to be tagged as malware and the Windows registry to be incorrectly modified. [.].

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We overhauled how you interact with operation logs and added support for tagging clients, projects, reports, findings, evidence files, domains, servers, operation logs, and log entries. Tagging Tags will help you organize and customize your projects. Tags are comma-separated and appear as grey badges in the interface.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 18, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) took the wraps off a new initial access broker that it said is closely affiliated to a Russian cyber crime gang notorious for its Conti and Diavol ransomware operations.

Ransomware 108

Ransomware 108

Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2021

Your browser does not support the video tag. OMG he's analyzing Windows malware on a Windows PC!!! This video shows how Cobalt Strike and Hancitor C2 traffic can be detected using CapLoader. I bet you're going: ?? Relax, I know what I'm doing. I have also taken the precaution of analyzing the PCAP f[.].

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Malware 108

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Google on Tuesday said it took steps to disrupt the operations of a sophisticated "multi-component" botnet called Glupteba that approximately infected more than one million Windows computers across the globe and stored its command-and-control server addresses on Bitcoin's blockchain as a resilience mechanism.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Researchers from Google’s TAG team reported that financially motivated actors are using new code signing tricks to evade detection. “In these new samples, the signature was edited such that an End of Content (EOC) marker replaced a NULL tag for the ‘parameters’ element of the SignatureAlgorithm signing the leaf X.509

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

An unofficial patch for an actively exploited flaw in Microsoft Windows that allows to bypass Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) protections. An unofficial patch for an actively exploited flaw in Microsoft Windows that allows to bypass Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) protections. The issue affects all supported and multiple legacy Windows versions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft December 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 52 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Azure; Office and Office Components; SysInternals; Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based); SharePoint Server; and the.NET framework. 12 of these vulnerabilities were submitted through the ZDI program.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

are displayed through a form structure in an “inspector window”. 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. What makes that determination?”

Authentication 145

Authentication Penetration Testing Technology Phishing 145

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Earlier this year Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. TAG was able to collect five separate, complete and unique iPhone exploit chains, covering almost every version from iOS 10 through to the latest version of iOS 12. The vulnerabilities were patched in iOS 12.1.4,

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Microsoft’s December patch batch is relatively light, addressing more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Windows and related applications. Also, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of backing up your data before installing Windows updates.

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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

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation.

Cybercrime 85

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware to Windows systems using SVG files. “SVG images are constructed using XML, allowing them to be placed within HTML using ordinary XML markup tags. Including script tags within a SVG image is a legitimate feature of SVG.”

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The tech giant also revealed that the botnet operators have so far compromised around 1 million Windows PCs around the world, with over a thousand of machines added daily.

Cryptocurrency 105

Cryptocurrency Government Internet Internet 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

The second flaw added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is a Microsoft Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Privilege Escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-21674 (CVSS score 8.8). Government experts believe that other ransomware gangs could exploit the same exploit chain in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for March 2023 addressed 74 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day exploited in ransomware attacks. The second flaw actively exploited in the wild is a Windows SmartScreen security feature bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-24880. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The flaw has been addressed with the release of version 120.0.6099.129 for Mac,Linux and 120.0.6099.129/130 for Windows which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. ” The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003, actively exploited in attacks in the wild. version for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69

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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. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

” Google TAG researcher Maddie Stone highlighted that the issue was addressed in only two days after the initial discovery, she also confirmed the exploitation by a commercial spyware vendor. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25″ reads the advisory published by Google.

Surveillance 111

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2021

Google Project Zero researchers uncovered a sophisticated hacking campaign that targeted Windows and Android users. While partnering with the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), the experts discovered a watering hole attack in Q1 2020 that was carried out by a highly sophisticated actor.

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Hacking Engineering Malware Information Security 107

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

An Akamai researcher has found two vulnerabilities in Windows that can be combined to achieve a full, zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in Outlook. The first vulnerability, listed as CVE-2023-35384 , is a Windows HTML platforms security feature bypass vulnerability. The attack itself is carried out locally.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, the new version of the popular anonymizing browser. for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android appeared first on Security Affairs. A new version of the popular Tor Browser was released by the Tor Project, it is Tor Browser 8.5.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

With support for Microsoft CA and AWS Private CA, DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager enables discovery, issuance, automation and revocation, including the ability to tag, filter and apply policy to imported and discovered third-party digital certificates.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP Security Note #3350297 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The New HotNews Note in Detail SAP Security Note #3411067 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, High Priority SAP Security Notes SAP Security Notes #3394567 , tagged with a CVSS score of 8.1, SAP Security Notes #3382353 , tagged with a CVSS score of 7.5,

Passwords 52

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. 200 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.” Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

“In particular, neither switching to a memory safe language , such as Rust, nor using current or future hardware memory safety features, such as memory tagging , can help with the security challenges faced by V8 today.” .” reads the announcement. ” concludes the announcement.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2023

Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is a challenge-response authentication protocol used to authenticate a client to a resource on an Active Directory domain. CVE-2023-24880 : a moderate Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass vulnerability. Reportedly , this vulnerability was used in ransomware related attacks.

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