Warning on KIMSUKY Cyber Actor's Recent Cyber Campaigns against Google's Browser and App Store Services

You may need to turn off Wi-Fi calling and VoLTE for a bit.

Google's Android and Chrome Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) in particular saw hundreds of valid reports and payouts for security vulnerabilities discovered by ethical hackers.

One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’re sharing insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.

We have recently written about malvertising campaigns that leverage Google paid advertisements to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of the software they were looking for. This malware then stole login credentials from the affected system.

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results.

As the amount of new memory-unsafe code entering Android has decreased, so too has the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. From 2019 to 2022 it has dropped from 76% down to 35% of Android’s total vulnerabilities. 2022 is the first year where memory safety vulnerabilities do not represent a majority of Android’s vulnerabilities.

Cobalt Strike, the popular tool used by red teams to test the resilience of their cyber defenses, has seen many iterations and improvements over the last decade. First released in 2012, it was originally the commercial spinoff of the open-source Armitage project that added a graphical user interface (GUI) to the Metasploit framework to help security practitioners detect software vulnerabilities more quickly.

Software Delivery Shield, a software supply chain security solution, can enhance the security posture along the supply chain from dev to production.

Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.

The RSA method was created by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 1978, and it is still used to encrypt and sign for data. The core of trust on the Internet is the usage of PKI, and where Web sites have a…

A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a scanner, which you can allegedly download, as can be seen in the following image

* On May 24, 2022, Cisco became aware of a potential compromise. Since that point, Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos have been working to remediate. * During the investigation, it was determined that a Cisco employee’s credentials were compromised after an attacker gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized.

Scammers go mainstream by hijacking top Google searches and replacing them with malicious ads.

The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.

A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain's exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence.

Faster, easier and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms  Mountain View, California, MAY 5, 2022  – In a joint effort to make the web […]

Despite open source software’s essential role in all software built today, it’s far too easy for bad actors to circulate malicious packages that attack the systems and users running that software. Unlike mobile app stores that can scan for and reject malicious contributions, package repositories have limited resources to review the thousands of daily updates and must maintain an open model where anyone can freely contribute. As a result, malicious packages like ua-parser-js, and node-ipc are regularly uploaded to popular repositories despite their best efforts, with sometimes devastating consequences for users.

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They’re accused of colluding to carve up the advertising market between them

Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service providers need it to function and individuals need to communicate safely. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information.

To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. In late August 2021, TAG discovered watering hole attacks targeting visitors to Hong Kong websites for a media outlet and a prominent pro-democracy labor and political group. The watering hole served an XNU privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-30869) unpatched in macOS Catalina, which led to the installation of a previously unreported backdoor.

Last year was another record setter for our Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs). Throughout 2021, we partnered with the security researcher community to identify and fix thousands of vulnerabilities – helping keep our users and the internet safe.

Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.

The RSA method was created by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 1978, and it is still used to encrypt and sign for data. The core of trust on the Internet is the usage of PKI, and where Web sites have a…

A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a scanner, which you can allegedly download, as can be seen in the following image

* On May 24, 2022, Cisco became aware of a potential compromise. Since that point, Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos have been working to remediate. * During the investigation, it was determined that a Cisco employee’s credentials were compromised after an attacker gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized.

Scammers go mainstream by hijacking top Google searches and replacing them with malicious ads.

The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.

A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain's exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence.