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Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

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. ” continues the report.

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Google blocked China-linked APT31’s attacks targeting U.S. Government

Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

government. government. 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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Cytrox’s Predator spyware used zero-day exploits in 3 campaigns

Security Affairs

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.

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Google links three exploitation frameworks to Spanish commercial spyware vendor Variston

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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Google TAG argues surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by ISPs to infect mobile users

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. CVE-2021-30983 internally referred to as Clicked3, fixed by Apple in December 2021.

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A WhatsApp zero-day exploit can cost several million dollars

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The research of zero-day exploits for popular applications such as WhatsApp is even more complex due to the security mechanisms implemented by the developers of the mobile OSs and the app. It’s unclear if these patches fixed the flaws underlying the exploits that were on sale in 2021.” and $8 million. .

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Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Winter Vivern group was first analyzed in 2021, it has been active since at least 2020 and it targets governments in Europe and Central Asia. The analysis of the email HTML source code revealed the presence of a SVG tag at the end, which contains a base64-encoded payload. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com

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Google: four zero-day flaws have been exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Google security experts revealed that Russia-linked APT group targeted LinkedIn users with Safari zero-day. 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.

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

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. Apple this week released emergency security updates to address three new zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992) that have been exploited in attacks in the wild.

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U.S. Gov imposed Visa restrictions on 13 individuals linked to commercial spyware activity

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

The measure aims to counter the misuse of surveillance technology targeting journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents, and US Government personnel, as documented in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Government personnel.” government. national security or foreign policy interests.

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Quebec shuts down thousands of sites as disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from Alibaba Cloud’s security team that notified the Apache Foundation on November 24.

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U.S. Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

government imposes visa restrictions on individuals who are involved in the illegal use of commercial spyware. government’s commitment to addressing the misuse of surveillance software, which poses a significant threat to society. Additionally, the misuse of these tools presents a security and counterintelligence threat to U.S.

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Google fixes 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in Chrome

Security Affairs

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.

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US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is a trade control list created and maintained by the U.S. government. national security or foreign policy interests.

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Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Google announced to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 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.

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Google warns of APT28 attack attempts against 14,000 Gmail users

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. So why do we do these government warnings then?

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US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Targets included hospitals, schools, public utilities, and governments. She previously hosted even TrickBot "red" group tag payload on her own website -> see URLhaus [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/qG977wjgLN — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) June 4, 2021. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

My professional and social life revolve around free and inexpensive information feeds and digital tools supplied by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. A wave of breakthrough systems and fresh business models need to take hold to drive the closed platform models of Google and Facebook into obsolescence.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. In early September 2021. In a moment we'll hear from two hackers who spoke at Black Hat USA 2021.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that.

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Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

Google blocked China-linked APT31’s attacks targeting U.S. Government

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Cytrox’s Predator spyware used zero-day exploits in 3 campaigns

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Google links three exploitation frameworks to Spanish commercial spyware vendor Variston

Google TAG argues surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by ISPs to infect mobile users

A WhatsApp zero-day exploit can cost several million dollars

Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

Google: four zero-day flaws have been exploited in the wild

Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

U.S. Gov imposed Visa restrictions on 13 individuals linked to commercial spyware activity

Quebec shuts down thousands of sites as disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw

U.S. Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware

Google fixes 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in Chrome

US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020

Google warns of APT28 attack attempts against 14,000 Gmail users

US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

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