Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

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. reads the advisory published by the company. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. TAG experts explained that they were unable to capture the full Predator implant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

It was developed by Zimbra, Inc The vulnerability is reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that was discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google TAG researchers focus on identifying and countering advanced and persistent threats. ” reads the CISA’s announcement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

” reads a report published by Avinoam. The researchers ran the current process inside a fabricated container and used a mini-filter to handle their I/O requests such that it can create, read, write, and delete files on the file system using kernel primitives and avoiding security product detection. ” continues the report.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accessible PDFs are easy to use – enabling most people to view, read or interact with them. The goal is to create an inclusive experience where all PDFs and documents are crafted with accessibility in mind or appropriate tags are added for those who require such features.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2024

Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. Neither August nor Chirp Systems responded to requests for comment.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The exposure of database credentials is dangerous, as a malicious actor could use them to connect to the database and read or modify data stored within. Another piece of sensitive information that the research team observed included a Google Tag Manager ID. Then they’d be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the website.

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Security Affairs

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. ” reads the advisory published by Wordfence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) linked three exploitation frameworks to a Spanish surveillance spyware vendor named Variston. While tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted an exploitation framework likely linked Variston IT, a Spanish firm. ” TAG concludes.

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Security Affairs

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.” ” reads the advisory published by Apache.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

” reads the post published by TAG. TAG determined that the APT group abused the zero-day vulnerability in the JScript engine of Internet Explorer. TAG also identified other documents that were used to exploit the same vulnerability, the experts speculate they may be part of the same campaign. CVE-2017-0199 ).

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

” reads the advisory published by the company. ” The vulnerability is reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that was discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG). .” Google TAG researchers focus on identifying and countering advanced and persistent threats.

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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. links sent over SMS to users.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Researchers from Google’s TAG team reported that financially motivated actors are using new code signing tricks to evade detection. “In these new samples, the signature was edited such that an End of Content (EOC) marker replaced a NULL tag for the ‘parameters’ element of the SignatureAlgorithm signing the leaf X.509

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs was supported by ISPs to spy on users. TAG researchers tracked more than 30 vendors selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to nation-state actors. ” reads the report published by Google. ” continues the analysis.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This can be exploited using an object tag, which in turn can load a malicious payload from a webserver, which is then executed by the Cobalt Strike client.” ” reads the post published by HelpSystems. “Disabling automatic parsing of html tags across the entire client was enough to mitigate this behaviour.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2023

reads the report published by Citrix. reads the advisory published by CISA. “In Update on CVE-2023-3519 vulnerable IPs: we now tag 15K Citrix IPs as vulnerable to CVE-2023-3519. We extended the tagging logic to tag as vulnerable all that return Last Modified headers with a date before July 1, 2023 00:00:00Z.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that some former members of the Conti cybercrime group were involved in five different campaigns targeting Ukraine between April and August 2022. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” concludes TAG.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

To avoid issues, we need to understand the DMARC record tags in detail. DMARC Record Tags in Detail To understand the DMARC record, we start with an example record and then explore the detailed options for each tag. Tags are separated by semicolons ( ; ) with no extra spaces. Definitions, Pros, Cons, and More first.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42916, is an out-of-bounds read. ” reads the advisory. The fact that the issues were discovered by Google TAG suggests they were exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. The company addressed the flaw with improved input validation.

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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. “To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. ” reads the analysis published by Google.

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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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Gimmal

MARCH 11, 2022

Created to facilitate detection of RFID tags that are in range of the network-connected RFID antenna. Further, RFIDConnect provides the ability to program RFID tags, allowing clients to tag new items as they are captured in the Gimmal Physical software. Gimmal announces the release of the new RFIDConnect.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

” reads the advisory published by Wordfence. Then the attacker can modify the raw request to contain an X-Forwarded-For header set to a malicious payload enclosed in script tags. The WP-Members Membership Plugin is currently installed on over 60,000 WordPress websites.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We SecurityAffairs – Google TAG, state-sponsored hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The analysis of the email HTML source code revealed the presence of a SVG tag at the end, which contains a base64-encoded payload. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

The lack of server-side validation for HTML tags in Elementor elements (i.e. “Many of these elements offer the option to set an HTML tag for the content within. tags in order to apply different heading sizes via the header_size parameter.” ” reads the post published by Wordfence.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

” reads the announcement. “In particular, neither switching to a memory safe language , such as Rust, nor using current or future hardware memory safety features, such as memory tagging , can help with the security challenges faced by V8 today.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “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.” ” reads the advisory published by the IT giant. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

” reads the advisory published by the company. 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. The vulnerability impacts iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation.

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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

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.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19” reads the advisory published by the IT giant. ” 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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