Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

July security updates for Android addressed more than 40 vulnerabilities, including three flaws that were actively exploited in targeted attacks. “There are indications that the following may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” ” reads the security bulletin.

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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 8, 2023

US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

At the time of publication, the exploitation of CVE-2024-21893 appears to be targeted. The company warned that the situation is still evolving and multiple threat actors can rapidly adapt their tactics, techniques, and procedures to exploit these issues in their campaigns. “At reads the advisory.

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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 post North Korea-linked hackers target security experts again appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

. “All critical operational systems are functioning; however, as a measure of abundant precaution, restricted access and preventive checks have been put in place for employee and customer facing portals and touch points, it added.” ” reported The Economic Times.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new malvertising campaign, code-named Dormant Colors, is delivering malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack targets’ browsers. Experts noticed that in its initial state, the code of Chrome extensions doesn’t include malicious components, but later malicious snippets are added to the code.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 8, 2023

Beginning July 1, 2023, Google will no longer offer restricted data processing for the following services: Any feature that entails uploading customer data for purposes of matching with Google or other data for personalized advertising ( e.g. , Customer Match); Any feature that entails targeting user lists obtained from a third party ( e.g. , Audience (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

In March, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The exploit chains were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Outlook NTLM exploit “Additionally, Microsoft confirmed that the flaw had been exploited as a zero day as part of limited attacks against government, transportation, energy, and military targets organizations in Europe by a Russia-based threat actor,” Narang said. This vulnerability could result in remote code execution.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

LockBit ransomware group claims to have hacked Bridgestone Americas Attackers use website contact forms to spread BazarLoader malware Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram Ubisoft suffered a cyber security incident that caused a temporary disruption Anonymous hacked Roskomnadzor agency revealing Russian disinformation Open (..)

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Regarding that flaw, Microsoft observed, “An attacker can craft a malicious file that would evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, resulting in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.” Prioritizing Fixes.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. Earlier this year Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. We believed that effective zero-day exploits cost $2M or $3M , and were used sparingly by governments only against high-value targets.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Glupteba disruption over last year: 63M Google Docs 1,183 Google Accounts, 908 Cloud Projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Today’s websites integrate dozens of third-party service providers, from user analytics to marketing tags, CDNs , ads, media and these third-party services load their code and content into the browser directly. Once the attacker has identified a suitable target, various methods like credential theft, SQL injection, RDP attacks, etc.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

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. The following image shows location of users targeted by government-backed COVID-19 related attacks. government employees. ” continues Google.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They’re exceptionally useful for tasks that require a high level of legitimacy and are less likely to be blocked or banned, making them ideal for sensitive operations like web scraping, ad verification, and accessing geo-restricted content. So, how do you choose between the knight and the maverick? The beauty lies in the balance.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

The Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. S igler added.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2019

A malvertising campaign that involved more than 100 publisher websites targeted iPhone users to deliver the Smart Krampus-3PC Malware. iPhone users visiting any of the impacted websites were also displayed a fraudulent popup masquerading as a grocery store reward ad. ” reads the analysis published by the DSO experts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. ” added Sainz.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

. “It took Microsoft more than two months to provide the patch, even though the company admitted that ProxyNotShell actively exploited the vulnerabilities in targeted attacks against at least 10 large organizations,” Mike Walters, vice president of vulnerability and threat research at Action1, said by email.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2020

Experts found a critical bug in Google’s official WordPress plugin ‘Site Kit’ that could allow hackers to gain owner access to targeted sites’ Google Search Console. The Site Kit WordPress plugin makes it easy to set up and configure key Google products (i.e. ” reads the analysis published by Wordfence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The e-skimmer is a base64-encoded JavaScript blob that attackers inject into target webpages. The skimmer is added to the onclick event of the checkout button and onunload event of the web page. “The payment data exfiltration takes place via an <img> tag whose src parameter is changed to hxxps://terminal4.veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The vulnerability could allow attackers to take over the targeted WordPress site, the malicious code would then execute anytime a user navigated to a page that contained the original content. “An attacker could use this vulnerability to replace a HTML tag like with malicious Javascript. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target organizations payment card data with so-called software skimmers. In June, the gang made the headlines again, after infecting over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Experts from Proofpoint pointed out that the Purple Fox malware previously used exploits targeting older Microsoft flaws, including the CVE-2018-8120 and CVE-2015-1701 issues. The CVE-2020-0674 exploit targets Internet Explorer’s usage of jscript.dll, a Windows library. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The researchers said they had seen Nobelium using HTML smuggling in a spear-phishing campaign in May, and more recently, observed it being used to deliver the banking Trojan Mekotio and the AsyncRAT/MJRAT and Trickbot malware used by attackers to get control of targeted devices and deliver such malware as ransomware. What Is HTML Smuggling?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” Experts also observed important differences between the lists of plugin server configurations, TrickBot operators have apparently eliminated the Tor plugin services and have added the new <psrva> tags, likely obfuscated IPs. This technique was also implemented by the Bazar backdoor. ” concludes Bitdefender.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But honestly, who else out there is sick of being followed by ads so stupid a fourth grader could do a better job of targeting them? Case in point is the ad above. As I perused the next Times article, this ad shows up: That would have made sense *after I bought a robe, but…” I bought slippers two weeks ago.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

In a report released July 12, researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs called the AVrecon botnet “one of the largest botnets targeting small-office/home-office (SOHO) routers seen in recent history,” and a crime machine that has largely evaded public attention since first being spotted in mid-2021. SocksEscort[.]com

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the case of social media text mining, that means a focus on comments, posts, ads, audio transcripts, etc. Part-of-speech (POS) tagging: POS tagging facilitates semantic analysis by assigning grammatical tags to words (e.g., A targeted approach will optimize the user experience and enhance an organization’s ROI.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 5, 2020

Responding to Requests to Know and Requests to Delete, the FSOR states that new section 3(c) was “added to set forth the conditions under which a business is not required to search for personal information in response to a request to know (emphasis added). Enforcement of Regulations.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 5, 2022

Second, build the docker image tagged with the full path to your Mayhem docker registry, and push to the registry:=. Free users will need to tag and push to a public repository, such as. We will go through these changes, and files added, below. However, you can easily make this happen by adding an `assert` statement.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These may be emails sent to millions of potential victims or targeted emails sent to a specific person in a particular organization. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging. Spam Filter. Microsegmentation.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

One of Saim Raza’s many ads in the cybercrime underground for his Fudtools service promotes the domain fudpage[.]com eu ,’ which was offered by a fellow Pakistani who also conveniently sold phishing toolkits targeting a number of big banks. com , and the WHOIS records for that domain share the same Karachi phone number.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google warns that the Russia-linked threat actor COLDRIVER expands its targeting and is developing a custom malware. The APT primarily targets NATO countries, but experts also observed campaigns targeting the Baltics, Nordics, and Eastern Europe regions, including Ukraine. ” reads TAG’s analysis.

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