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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. The researchers discovered that attackers deployed on the sites hosted two iframes that were used to serve iOS and macOS exploits to the visitors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.6.” The flaw was discovered by security researcher Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). “A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Five of the issues added by CISA to its catalog are part of the exploits used by surveillance vendors to target mobile devices with their commercial spyware: CVE-2021-30900 – Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability. Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

13, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Apple to report this as a possible privacy bug in the new iPhone Pro and/or in iOS 13.x, The behavior appears to persist in the latest iPhone operating system (iOS 13.2.3) I was not able replicate this behavior on an older model iPhone 8 with the latest iOS. on iPhone 11 Pro devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The investigation started in November after Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks targeting macOS users in Hong Kong. Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong.

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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. ” Post by @_clem1 & @maddiestone on 4 0days TAG found this year (with IOCs!). Also thoughts on why we are seeing so many 0day in 2021.

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Security Affairs

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. In February, the company released emergency security updates to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-23529 , that impacts iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The vulnerabilities were patched in iOS 12.1.4, 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Zero-day broker Zerodium has updated the price list for both Android and iOS exploits, with Android ones having surpassed the iOS ones for the first time. For the first time, the price for Android exploits is higher than the iOS ones, this is what has emerged from the updated price list published by the zero-day broker Zerodium.

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Security Affairs

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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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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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. 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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082 The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor (..)

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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. ” Sainz wrote.”Google’s

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Security Affairs

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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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2021

the newest version of iOS, the operating system that runs my iPhone. Ponder that for a moment and then reflect on the irony of a company that since 2013 has been selling such tagged devices, while at the same time bragging about its commitment to users’ privacy. I’ve just downloaded v14.5,

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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. Published patches for iOS 17.0.3 The iOS 17.0.3 and iPadOS 17.0.3 or earlier.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

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

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

” In May 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Currently, the Predator spyware is developed and sold by Israeli company Intellexa, it can target both iOS and Android devices.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

The message was allegedly sent to her iPhone 5 which cannot run an operating system beyond iOS 10. A forensics investigator examined the screenshot and discovered an emoji present in the image was a version not available until iOS 13 was released. Chat applications (WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, etc.).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” The lists of security updates released by Microsoft is available on the Security Update Guide portal : Tag CVE ID CVE Title.NET Core CVE-2021-26701.NET ” The lists of security updates released by Microsoft is available on the Security Update Guide portal : Tag CVE ID CVE Title.NET Core CVE-2021-26701.NET

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Security Affairs

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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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It works very well across apps on iOS and Android as well as web browsers. Being able to tag these references and attached PDF files using a structured set of tags I have created has saved me countless hours over the last 3 years.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

. “A typical ScamClub payload has a few layers to it, starting with an ad tag that loads a malicious CDN hosted dependency. The group has been active since 2018, it mainly targeted iOS users with malicious ads that often redirected users to sites hosting online scams. Google Chrome team also notified (Chrome on iOS uses WebKit).

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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. Certainly, the Twitter website does, so does the native iOS client and so does Tweetbot.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 20, 2018

Brett speaks around the country on litigation support, eDiscovery, Mac, and iOS-related topics and today authors a variety of blogs and online courses for legal professionals. Brett graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in 2000 and quickly became active in the world of legal technology. That’s negligent and ripe with risk.

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Imperial Violet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Platforms for developing with passkeys include: Safari on iOS 16 or macOS 13. Just adding the webauthn tag doesn’t do anything if there’s not a pending promise for the browser to resolve.) But with iOS 16 it’ll exclude the platform authenticator. is a reasonable place, with the passkey tag. But it's here for now.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

” wrote Toni Gidwani, a Security Engineering Manager with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google TAG reported the case of a single threat actor that employed five zero-day vulnerabilities in a relatively short time frame. You can also use the built-in security key in an iPhone running iOS 10+ or an Android 7+ device.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The threat actors evaded ad verification tags to avoid detection. ” VASTFLUX exploited the restricted in-app environments that run ads, particularly on iOS, to place bids and display malicious ad banners. . The malvertising campaign spoofed more than 1,700 apps and 120 publishers, and targeted nearly 11 million devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2021

You can also create tags to group related items, like financial information and social media accounts, or favorite items you use frequently. Image: 1Password iOS app. Image: Dashlane iOS app. You can add as many categories as you need to organize all of your online accounts, documents, and other security details.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

Experts observed a spike in COVID-19 related malspam emails containing GuLoader Silent Night Zeus botnet available for sale in underground forums The Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach Voter information for 2 millions of Indonesians leaked online 25 million Mathway user records available for sale on the dark web Online education site (..)

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