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

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Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. citizenlab in coordination with @Google ’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp. .

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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. The IT giant pointed out that major events like elections and COVID-19 represent opportunities for threat actors. election. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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

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

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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. Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082 The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor (..)

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Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that remained under the radar for 7 years

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Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab.

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LGBTQ+ Network News from Information Professional

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In November, CILIP LGBTQ+ Steering Group handed over the reins to the first elected CILIP LGBTQ+ Committee and we?re re working with The British Library helping to develop the LGBTQ+ Lives Online project which focuses on curating, collecting, tagging and categorising UK websites with an LGBTQ+ focus, as part of the UK Web Archive initiative.