Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered several exploit chains targeting Android, iOS, and Chrome to install commercial spyware. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 29, 2023

Google TAG researchers reveal two campaigns against iOS, Android, and Chrome users that demonstrate how the commercial surveillance market is thriving despite government-imposed limits.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

US CISA added ownCloud and Google Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ownCloud and Google Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Google released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-6345, in the Chrome browser. Google on Wednesday released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day, tracked as CVE-2023-6345, in the Chrome browser. ” reads the advisory published by Google.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. citizenlab in coordination with @Google ’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp. .

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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. ” concludes the report.

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MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Google rolled out urgent security updates to address two new actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser. Google this week rolled out urgent security updates for the Chrome browser to address four security flaws, including two new zero-day vulnerabilities that are being exploited in the wild. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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APRIL 1, 2023

Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. 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

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 This vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne from Google TAG and Samuel Groß from Google Project Zero on 2021-10-26. Be sure to update your Chrome install to the latest 95.0.4638.69 version for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Google released a Chrome emergency update for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addresses a high-severity zero-day flaw exploited in the wild. Google has released Chrome 94.0.4606.61 An attacker can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on systems running vulnerable Chrome versions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

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. Google P0 found some (very) high-end actor's Chrome exploitation servers. “The exploits for Chrome and Windows included 0-days.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new malvertising campaign, code-named Dormant Colors, is delivering malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack targets’ browsers. Researchers at Guardio Labs have discovered a new malvertising campaign, called Dormant Colors, aimed at delivering malicious Google Chrome extensions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Security researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Google Project Zero revealed that four zero-day vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild earlier this year. The four security flaws were discovered earlier this year and affect Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and WebKit browser engine.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Patch it now! million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

The weakness, which is present on all support versions of Windows, is tagged tagged with the less severe “important” rating by Microsoft mainly because it requires an attacker to be logged on to the system first.

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APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns.

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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. At the time of delivery, the latest Samsung firmware had not included a fix for this vulnerability. This vulnerability grants the attacker system access.

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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.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Security experts discovered a vulnerability in the popular Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome can be exploited to steal sensitive data from sites visited by users. Security experts at browser security firm Guardio discovered a critical universal cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome.

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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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MAY 7, 2020

The first information tag “ prog.params ” is immediately retrieved in the instruction “ HandlerParams.Start() ” seen in Figure 4. The malware tries to find the id of the mutex, declared inside the relative tag seen in code snippet 2, inside the “%TEMP%” folder. Figure 7: Check of a previous infection. Conclusion.

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Imperial Violet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Chrome Canary (with chrome://flags#webauthn-conditional-ui set) on Win­dows 22H2. Chrome Canary (with chrome://flags#webauthn-conditional-ui set) on mac­OS. Just adding the webauthn tag doesn’t do anything if there’s not a pending promise for the browser to resolve.) is a reasonable place, with the passkey tag.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Yet in the dev tools we see the href attribute of the hyperlink referring to an unrecognisable string of characters and the domain name within the <a> tag almost looking like a very familiar one, albeit for the fourth character. Can you spot the subtle difference in the domain name compared to the search engine?

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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MARCH 8, 2022

Below is the complete list of vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft: Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity.NET and Visual Studio CVE-2022-24512.NET Below is the complete list of vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft: Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity.NET and Visual Studio CVE-2022-24512.NET

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APRIL 3, 2022

And how to prevent it?

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Troy Hunt

JULY 20, 2018

I don't mean for this to become a repetitive topic (and I'm sure it'll die down after Chrome 68 hits next week), but this week got pretty crazy. There's links to that discussion and the nasty comments Scott copped on my blog below.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero uncovered the weakness, which is connected to unauthorized access to freed memory, possibly allowing attackers to corrupt or change sensitive data. Arm also published two additional vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-33200 and CVE-2023-34970.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 1, 2018

And yes, "same-site" cookies will fix this but as of today, only Chrome supports it.). Edge now joins the other major browsers in rejecting any script which doesn't hash down to the value specified in the integrity tag. And so it is with trusting JavaScript served from third parties. This has been a long time coming.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2024

Google TAG researchers warn that COLDRIVER is evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), to improve its detection evasion capabilities. Recently, TAG has observed COLDRIVER delivering custom malware via phishing campaigns using PDFs as lure documents. ” reads TAG’s analysis. ” concludes the report.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Me: Ok, but be conscious that means they can never change those scripts without you first modifying the integrity attribute on your script tags and you need time to push that out so as not to break the site. Bank: We're also thinking about using HPKP to pin the TLS cert to the browser and protect against misissuance of a rogue cert from a CA.

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

But sites have been able to use Security Keys with Google Chrome for some years because Chrome ships with a hidden, internal extension through which the U2F API can be implemented with a Javascript polyfill, which Google also provides. These will be recognised and suppressed in Chrome 67.)

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