Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The Google TAG uses uncovered phishing attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. “ However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.” In one case observed by the TAG team.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a comprehensive open-source messaging and collaboration platform that provides email, calendaring, file sharing, and other collaboration tools. ” The vulnerability is reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that was discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. The ever-changing landscape of rapid communication via instant messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Signal, WeChat, Telegram, and others, has left regulated industries to find a balance between compliance and efficient client communication.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG) ” states CERT/CC. . ” states CERT/CC. CERT/CC also published Vulnerability Note VU#132380 with a comprehensive list of affected vendors, and guidance to mitigate the issues.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

At a high level, implementation of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard can be done simply and easily for outgoing mail by adding a text file to an organization’s DNS record. To avoid issues, we need to understand the DMARC record tags in detail.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. government.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Through our platform, users can filter, search, and tag items at the individual level. Messages can also be viewed through our 24-hour thread feature which increases review speeds by permitting the numbering, tagging, and production of individual messages while displaying the full context of a conversation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

According to Reuters, at least victims of the leak confirmed the authenticity of the messages and revealed they were targeted by Russia-linked hackers. ” reported the Reuters. “Dearlove said that the emails captured a “legitimate lobbying exercise which, seen through this antagonistic optic, is now subject to distortion.””

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “SVG images are constructed using XML, allowing them to be placed within HTML using ordinary XML markup tags. Talos has identified malicious emails featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that themselves contain HTML <script> tags. Including script tags within a SVG image is a legitimate feature of SVG.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related to state-backed attacks and revealed that it has identified more than a dozen state-sponsored groups using COVID-19 lures. The IT giant also announced to have blocked more than 240 million spam messages related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares. The first, CVE-2023-23415 , is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) with a CVSS score of 9.8. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Upon the user’s submission of data into the counterfeit form, an error message is displayed. Unlike variations one and two, data exfiltration in the third variation relies on the injection of fake form that closely resembles the original payment form and overlays it.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We like to raise awareness of the challenges of managing e-records throughout the year, so here is a selection of previously published blog articles on various topics: Social Media and Text Messaging: Are text messages records? How do I capture text message records? Is my office’s social media a record?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

The malware is distributed through phishing messages using a malicious attachment or a link to the malicious archive containing Bumblebee. The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Team analyzed a cyberattack that involved the Bumblebee Loader and detailed how the attackers were able to compromise the entire network.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

An unsuspecting employee will open a legitimate-looking message and click a link or download a file that releases embedded malware onto their machine or the broader company network. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. A typical attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” ” “The group, which can be found on social messaging platform Discord, has almost 1,000 members across the globe. ” reported The New Paper.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 13 – Anonymous sent a message to Russians: “remove Putin”. Anonymous has published a new message for Russian citizens inviting them to remove Putin that is sacrificing them and killing Ukrainians.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

The phishing messages were highly targeted, the group sent them to the targets from a range of email accounts, including Gmail accounts and self-hosted accounts. Sophistication of the bait content, specificity to the target, message volume and persistence across time varied widely between clusters. ” continues the report.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

For instance, there are 20 million text/chat messages sent every minute. * By Rick Clark It’s evident that the legal eDiscovery industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the ever-expanding data varieties, volumes, and the velocity in growth for varieties and volume, especially in the last year.)

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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

MAY 24, 2023

The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication standard enables email servers to check incoming emails to verify the sender and detect email message alterations. Typically, the organization will select the sending domain and portions of the body of the message to generate the hash value.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. I hoped that this will be [some kind of] blacklist, with logging about blocked [messages/calls].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2020

The messages also contained sexual insults against the about rapper Eminem. ” The tweets began around 3 pm PST and continued throughout the day, several messages used the N-word and tagged other Twitter accounts. . ” reads The Hollywood Reporter. million followers on Twitter — on New Year’s Eve.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

Threat actors created fake login pages for each organization and sent spear-phishing messages to nuclear scientists in an attempt to trick them into providing their passwords. In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“Obviously, such approach requires more actions from the victim, as the browser will show several messages about the downloaded file. “Android offers a way to tag the content of the window as secure, by using the “FLAG_SECURE” , which prevents it “from appearing in screenshots or from being viewed on non-secure displays”.

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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. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

This means the context of the whole conversation including text before and after the individual messages could lose context in the conversation, leaving a void in the interpretation. Cell Phone Discovery: Reviewing Text Messages In a Modern Data Review Platform. For example, in Rossbach v.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles. pk — but the message bounced back, saying there was no such address. Similarly, a call to the Lahore phone number listed on the website produced an automated message saying the number is not in service.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The attack chain relies on malvertising messages that were crafted to trick victims into clicking on the install button as seen in the following video: Upon clicking on the ‘OK’ or ‘Continue’ button, the victims are prompted to install a color-changing extension.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AMP4Email makes it easier the management of dynamic content inside emails, it allows users to easily take action directly from within the message itself, like RSVP to an event, fill out a questionnaire, browse a catalog or respond to a comment. getElementById ( ‘username’) or document. querySelector ( ‘#username’).”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting issue that is related to the way the app parses incoming email messages. “A A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Outlook for Android software parses specifically crafted email messages. reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. “The It failed, which is good.

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