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JUNE 19, 2022

The vulnerability resides in the Merge Tag feature of the plugin. “One feature of Ninja Forms is the ability to add “Merge Tags” to forms that will auto-populate values from other areas of WordPress like Post IDs and logged in user’s names. SecurityAffairs – hacking, WordPress). 3.1.10, 3.2.28, 3.3.21.4, and 3.6.11.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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APRIL 13, 2022

The remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-17530, resides in forced OGNL evaluation when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes. Forced OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution – similar to S2-059.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apache).

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ownCloud and Google Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) 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. x before 0.2.1 x before 0.3.1.

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APRIL 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-17530, resides in forced OGNL evaluation when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes. “Forced OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution – similar to S2-059.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Struts 2).

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MAY 28, 2022

According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website was set up to publish private emails from Brexit supporters, including former British MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, and historian Robert Tombs.

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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.

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JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Cybersecurity specialists should be especially careful with attribution, as in some cases such activity leads to provocations and purposely generated operations. The logged sources of attacks showed how the attackers are actively using spoofed IP addresses and the deployment of tools on compromised IoT devices and hacked WEB resources.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In March, researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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. ” reads the post published by Google TAG. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 23, 2022

SEKOIA researchers started their investigation after the publication of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s report “ Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe ” which detailed the activity of nation-state actors against Eastern Europe. SecurityAffairs – hacking, domain name system). org jadlactnato.webredirect[.]org.

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JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5 SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Cybersecurity and intelligence experts observed an escalation in the activity associated with the Cold River APT since the invasion of Ukraine. In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. . Cybersecurity firm SEKOIA.IO

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cisa). US CISA added Microsoft Exchange elevation of privileges bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. 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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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This week, researchers at Horizon3 cybersecurity firm have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-39952 , in Fortinet’s FortiNAC network access control solution. Tags and blocklists available now. A PoC was published earlier today.

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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. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , including the above issue.

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APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28). Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers uncovered a campaign conducted by a China-linked threat actor targeting Indian power grid organizations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Today, Apple published an emergency update for all iPhones to patch an exploit chain which we, together with @_clem1 (Google TAG) discovered in the wild. Super proud of our team at @AmnestyTech and everyone who helped in this investigation.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

Pro-Russian hackers claim attacks on Italian banks Hacktivists fund their operations using common cybercrime tactics Bitfinex Hacker and Wife Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Billions in Cryptocurrency A cyberattack has disrupted hospitals and health care in several states FBI warns of scammers posing as NFT devs to steal your (..)

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MARCH 27, 2024

In cybersecurity, and in life, by the time you find out that something went wrong it is often too late. Status-quo cybersecurity works by securing the “boxes” in which our data resides. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDR Advantage )

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MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 5, 2022

Researchers from cybersecurity firm GreyNoise reported that 23 unique IP addresses were observed exploiting the Atlassian vulnerabilities. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2022-26134). 23 unique IPs so far.

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APRIL 23, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 416 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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.” Based on the parameters, the library periodically checks, pulls device information, and sends them to the remote servers.” ” concludes the report.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. Resecurity (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies, has detected a significant increase in the value of ransom demand requests by the notorious Blackcat ransomware gang.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Multiple state-sponsored hacking groups are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers. Cybersecurity firm Volexity is warning that nation-state actors are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers tracked as CVE-2020-0688.

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APRIL 28, 2020

“An attacker could use this vulnerability to replace a HTML tag like with malicious Javascript. This would cause the malicious code to execute on nearly every page of the affected site, as nearly all pages start with a HTML tag for the page header, creating a significant impact if successfully exploited.”

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MAY 24, 2022

The attackers place a Base64-encoded string inside a spoofed Google Tag Manager code. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. SecurityAffairs – hacking, web skimming attacks). This string decoded to trafficapps[.]business/data[.]php?p=form.

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MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mustang Panda). The group has also continuously evolved its delivery mechanisms consisting of maldocs, shortcut files, malicious archives and more recently seen downloaders starting with 2022.”

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MAY 14, 2021

Threat actors edited the shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake PNG file. ” Please vote Security Affairs as Best Personal cybersecurity Blog [link]. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Magecart). The file named Magento.png attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper PNG format for a valid image file.”

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. However, if you know where the dangers lurk, there is a way to minimize the cybersecurity risks. Here are five significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities with IoT in 2020. The cybersecurity issues related to IoT are a brand-new topic in the niche. Poor credentials.

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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. SecurityAffairs – Facebook, hacking). Conclusion.

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