Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. response to COVID-19.

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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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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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Russian APT group Winter Vivern (aka TA473) has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software on October 11, 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. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. “Pushwoosh never mentioned it was Russian-based in eight annual filings in the U.S. regulatory filings present it as a U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. The collective Anonymous and its affiliated groups continue to target the Russian government and private organizations. March 16 – Hacker breaches key Russian ministry in blink of an eye.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 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. This spike is largely due to blocking an unusually large campaign from a Russian actor known as APT28 or Fancy Bear.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. “Despite the absence of technical evidence associating Calisto activities with a known Russian cyber offensive service, SEKOIA.IO “The digital blitz against the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. Page translation from Russian via Google Translate. SocksEscort[.]com

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. ” The IT giant won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the botnet, the court’s ruling sets an important legal precedent in the fight against cybercrime. ” The U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab monitored the evolution and the diffusion of an infostealer dubbed Poulight that most likely has a Russian origin. Over the last two months, we monitored the evolution and the diffusion of an infostealer dubbed by the authors Poulight that most likely has a Russian origin. Introduction.

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

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

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. ” Post by @_clem1 & @maddiestone on 4 0days TAG found this year (with IOCs!). Also thoughts on why we are seeing so many 0day in 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Google announced to have taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba , it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

In February 2022, Cisco Talos researchers started observing China-linked cyberespionage group Mustang Panda conducting phishing attacks against European entities, including Russian organizations. The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

Shade is considered one of the most dangerous threats in the cyber crime scenario, it has been active at least since 2014 when a massive infection was observed in Russian. “AutoFocus has a Shade ransomware tag that identifies any items associated with Shade.” ” reads the analysis published by Paloalto Networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 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.”. ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2019

The AZORult Trojan is one of the most popular data stealers in the Russian cybercrime underground. The malware has a relatively high price tag ($100), it supports a broad functionality (i.e. Experts from Kaspersky observed a new C++ version of the AZORult data stealer that implements the ability to establish RDP connections.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In mid-September, researchers from the Citizen Lab and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the three Apple zero-days (CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992) addressed in the same period were used as part of an exploit to install Cytrox Predator spyware.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

The account also began tagging dozens of reporters and news organizations on Twitter. ” While this detail by itself is not particularly interesting, Stewart said an earlier version of the GandCrab ransomware strain would place a photo of a Russian man named Valery Sinyaev in every existing folder where it would encrypt files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

In one early post on Hackforums, Profitvolt laments the untimely demise of various “bulletproof” hosting providers over the years, from the Russian Business Network and Atrivo/Intercage , to McColo , 3FN and Troyak , among others. A BULLETPROOF PLAN? – Laksh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC , which maintains Hexproxy[.]com

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Rocket Software

JULY 8, 2019

Steve Jobs’ breakthrough brainchild did not invent, but instead featured the first graphical user interface , a built-in screen, mouse , and an incredibly expensive price-tag. It struggled to compete with the already existing IBM Personal computer and the Commodore 64 and saw a steep decline in sales in the ‘90s.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

” First surfacing on Russian language hacking forums in August 2020, DarkSide is a ransomware-as-a-service platform that vetted cybercriminals can use to infect companies with ransomware and carry out negotiations and payments with victims. .” Portions of a DarkSide recruitment message, translated from Russian.

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