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Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers

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

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

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Shane Huntley, Director at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), revealed that her team has shared its findings with the campaigns and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ” reads the report published by Google TAG. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Crooks hide e-skimmer code in favicon EXIF Metadata

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The attackers loaded the e-skimmer from the ‘Copyright’ field in the metadata of this image. 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. including name, billing address, and credit card details.

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Tor Project’s Bug Smash Fund raises $86K in August

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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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Cryptojacking Coinhive Miners for the first time found on the Microsoft Store

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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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Tor Project released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android

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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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A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

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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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