Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

. “In the summer of 2020, Google determined that Glupteba malware was being disseminated on numerous third-party software download sites, online movie streaming sites, and video downloader sites, often advertised as “free downloads.” TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. The GTM tag management system allows developers to inject JavaScript and HTML content within their apps for tracking and analytics purposes. Make frequent backups of important data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The funding project aims to be transparent, any donors can track how that money is being used by the foundation, the Tor Project will tag any bug tickets that utilize the money of the fund with the “BugSmashFund” tag. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Here’s how.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Bwloe the full changelog since Tor Browser 8.5: All platforms Update Torbutton to 2.1.10 Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Tor Browser 8.5.1, Tor Project).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The skimmer uses an image GET request, but unlike other skimmers instead of loading and then immediately removing the image tag, Pipka sets the onload attribute of the image tag. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

The Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A report published by the Google Threat Threat Analysis Group (TAG) speculates that the attack was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Each Webkinz toy has an attached tag with a unique “Secret Code” printed on it that allows you to play with your pet in the “ Webkinz World” website. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

For lower level users, WordPress does not sanitize them for usage as HTML tag attributes. The code in the last line shows output as HTML tag attributes that are not being escaped. ” reads the analysis” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Lecigne and Google’s TAG did not disclose the technical details of the exploit. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

The initial JavaScript loads the skimming code included in the EXIF metadata of the favicon.ico using an <img> tag, and specifically via the onerror event. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

directory files, we can force the file to evaluate some of the entries within the [Desktop Entry] tag.” “Some of the entries in this tag include “Icon”, “Name”, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. desktop and. ” the expert added.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

RFID Feature: One clue still left (from a hardware security POV) was about the RFID tag. From the opening of the case, it was visibly obvious that the RFID feature advertised by Hideez was not related to the NRF52, but was rather just a standalone re-writable tag. At this point, I will let the good-old Arny express my feelings.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

” The above issue can become a security issue since administrators of a WordPress blog are allowed to use arbitrary HTML tags in comments, even <script> tags. Below the timeline shared by the expert: Date What 2018/10/24 Reported that it is possible to inject more HTML tags than should be allowed via CSRF to WordPress.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The XSS occurs when the sanitized links are processed via vsprintf(), an additional double quote is injected into the <i> tag allowing for an attribute injection. “As can be seen in the above table, the tag is replaced with a %1s and the user input string is then sanitized. ” continues the post. and 2.1.17. and 2.1.18.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The third-party library can perform ad fraud by clicking advertisements in the background without the user’s consent. “The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.”

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2020

users, allowed children under the age of 13 (“U13”) to create accounts, collected U13 users’ personal information, and allowed third-party advertisers to collect data from U13 users, all without obtaining COPPA-compliant verifiable parental consent.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action se ” reads the security advisory published by Apache. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

In December 2020, the company revised its privacy policy (increasing its size to 15 pages) and added a statement that it used Facebook Pixel, a web analytics and advertising service by Facebook, Inc.

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Security Affairs

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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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2019

While the previous version made it clear that advertising displayed online “ to the general public ” was excluded from the scope of these rules (suggesting targeted advertising was covered), new changes suggest that even targeted advertising might not constitute direct marketing communications under the Proposal (e.g.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2021

Apple calls this “app-tracking transparency” (ATT) and it concerns a code known as “the identity for advertisers” or IDFA. 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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

” Recently Google TAG has published its first TAG quarterly report , the Q1 2020 TAG Bulletin , that provides insights on the campaigns monitored in the first quarter of 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Dark basin, hacking).

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes Google. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Even if AMP4Email implements a strong validator that only allows a list of tags and attributes in dynamic mails, it doesn’t implement a validation system to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The Baka loader works by dynamically adding a script tag to the current page that loads a remote JavaScript file. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Baka e-skimmer).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2020

” The tweets began around 3 pm PST and continued throughout the day, several messages used the N-word and tagged other Twitter accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Source reclaimthenet.org.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Crooks used a script in the call optimization services to check a specific tag in the scam URL, then the script retrieves the scammer’s phone number from the service’s servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .”

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-6287" for a full list of source IP addresses and relevant indicators. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Mass scanning activity started around 2020-07-15T17:48:37Z.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2020-0688" to locate hosts conducting scans. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. pic.twitter.com/Kp3zOi5AOA — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) February 25, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2020

Search Console, Analytics, Tag Manager, PageSpeed Insights, Optimize, and AdSense), giving users authoritative and up-to-date advice on how to succeed on the web, it has over 300,000 active installations. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by Wordfence.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

RCE + LPE exploits without persistence for iMessage and WhatsApp could be rewarded with a $1,500,000 payout (+50% previous price tag). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states Zerodium. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

. “However, these campaigns seem to deliver the Agent Tesla spyware Trojan instead, and beyond just the oil & gas sector, they also target other energy verticals that have been tagged as critical during this Coronavirus pandemic.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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