Shane Huntley, Senior Director Threat Analysis Group, has written an article about the Ukraine Russia conflict and how the increased cyber activity has spilled out and impacted the cyber security landscape. Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape (blog.google) Not so light reading for the …
Google ads malvertising campaign evades anti-virus detection
Data stealing malware, pushed through compromised Google search ads, is attempting to evade detection by using virtualisation components: Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion (bleepingcomputer.com) Researchers think this new type of attack strategy and other emerging attack vectors are being prompted s as reaction to Microsoft tightening …
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Google adds end-to-end encryption
The UK Government does not like the ordinary citizen to have uncontrolled access to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but others like it – like Google: Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web (bleepingcomputer.com) See what I have to say about closing public toilets as an amendment to the UK …
Do you have an Android device?
Google has released an Android update that fixes a range of vulnerabilities: Android December 2022 security updates fix 81 vulnerabilities (bleepingcomputer.com) Unlike Apple, who control both the hardware and software in its eco-system and updates apply to all “in support” devices, Google does not so there are many flavours of …
CISA adds a Google vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and Cuba Ransomware
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Google vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA CISA also published a detailed advisory last week examining all aspects of the Cuba Ransomware as part of its #StopRansomware …
