Tag: google
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Malspam Campaign Abuses DoubleClick to Deploy Stealthy .NET Loader
A sophisticated new malspam campaign is actively exploiting Google’s DoubleClick ad-tracking infrastructure to bypass enterprise email security gateways. Discovered by researchers at Huntress, the attack utilizes highly personalized dynamic lures to initiate a complex, five-stage infection chain that actively dismantles local defenses before deploying process-hollowed payloads. The attack chain begins with a malicious HTML attachment,…
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UNC3753 Targets US Law Firms with Vishing, RMM Tools, and Physical Break-Ins
Threat cluster UNC3753, widely tracked as Silent Ransom Group or Luna Moth, is actively targeting professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. According to Mandiant’s Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), this financially motivated campaign leverages a highly effective combination of voice phishing, remote monitoring and management abuse, and unprecedented physical office intrusions. Attackers…
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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent.The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a…
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Android Gemini prompt injection flaw patched by Google
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/android-gemini-prompt-injection-flaw-patched-by-google
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New malspam campaign uses Google DoubleClick to deliver DesckVB RAT
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/new-malspam-campaign-uses-google-doubleclick-to-deliver-desckvb-rat
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Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms’ offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-and-fbi-warn-of-ransomware-group-that-sends-fake-it-workers-to-hack-victims-in-person/
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New Magecart Attack Abuses Stripe as Malware C2
A novel Magecart campaign that weaponizes legitimate cloud services to evade detection: attackers are storing a JavaScript skimmer inside Stripe customer metadata and delivering it to victim checkouts via Google Tag Manager. The combination makes Stripe both the command server for arbitrary code and the durable exfiltration sink for stolen card data, using domains (googletagmanager.com…
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PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network
Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack…
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Fake Context Alignment: The Attack That Made Gemini Obey Strangers Through Your Notifications
SafeBreach tricked Gemini into obeying attackers via WhatsApp notifications, using hidden foreign-language text to bypass Google’s defenses and control smart home devices. SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair spent months trying to break Google’s Gemini voice assistant after Google patched the vulnerabilities he found in his previous research. The new attack class he developed, named Fake…
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PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network.”Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer every…
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Infosecurity Europe: Mythos Outperforms GPT5.5 on Google Chrome Vulnerability Exploits, Says New Benchmark
A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mythos-gpt-chrome-exploits/
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OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish
Installing an app from the Google Workspace Marketplace or GitHub Marketplace can grant a third party access to company email, files, calendars, code repositories, CI … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/04/oauth-marketplace-apps-audit/
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FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads
Tags: attack, backdoor, cybercrime, cybersecurity, google, group, macOS, malicious, malware, networkCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell.According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity cluster dubbed JSCoreRunner (aka FileRipple) in late August 2025. The cybercrime group behind the two…
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Fake Sites Mimicking Open-Source Tools Rank High on Google to Deliver Malware via TDS
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framework.”The sites are well-designed and often look like legitimate project portals at a glance, sometimes referencing First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Fake Chrome Web Store Copyright Alerts Used to Steal Google Logins
Hackers are actively targeting Chrome extension developers with a sophisticated phishing campaign that impersonates official Chrome Web Store copyright enforcement notices, aiming to steal Google account credentials and potentially compromise widely used browser extensions. Victims are told they have 48 hours to respond or risk permanent removal. The message appears highly personalized and directs users…
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Fake Claude Code Installer on Google Sites Steals Credentials
Fake installers for Anthropic’s Claude Code are being weaponized in a new ClickFix-style campaign that abuses trusted Google Sites hosting to deliver a fileless credential”‘stealing malware payload. The operation impersonates popular AI development tools such as Claude Code and Codex, guiding victims to run an MSHTA-based command that ultimately stages an in”‘memory stealer inside PowerShell.exe…
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Hackers Exploit Google Gemini Flaw Using Malicious Messages from WhatsApp, Slack, and SMS
Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered flaw in Google’s Gemini voice assistant by sending malicious messages via popular platforms such as WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, Instagram, Messenger, and SMS. The vulnerability, uncovered by SafeBreach Labs, shows how attackers can secretly inject instructions into Gemini’s conversation context via instant message notifications. This lets them manipulate the assistant…
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Google rolls out scam call detection for Android
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/google-rolls-out-ai-scam-call-detection-for-android
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Quantum Sales Pitch Goes From Compute Supremacy to Utility
IBM, Google and Other Firms Are Focusing on Commercial Value as Quantum Progresses. IBM’s $10 billion quantum computing push reflects a broader industry effort to move beyond scientific milestones and toward business value. But cybersecurity leaders say vendors should focus less on product narratives and more on meaningful progress. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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WhatsApp, Slack Notifications Could Hijack Google Gemini on Android
A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini’s voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim’s connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory.No malicious app on the phone is required.…
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Google DoubleClick Abused in New Malspam Campaign to Deliver DesckVB RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google’s DoubleClick domain as a way to evade detection and ultimately deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) named DesckVB RAT.”Before the victim ever reaches attacker-controlled infrastructure, the lure routes through DoubleClick, a legitimate Google-owned domain that many security tools are less likely to…
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Impersonation, Click Hijacking, and TDS: Inside a Malware Distribution Ecosystem
esearch by:Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction When we search Google for a popular piece of software, we usually click the first result, sometimes without even looking at the rest, because official project sites tend to rank highest and appear near the top of the results. After landing on a site with a professional design and…
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Google Patches Actively Exploited Android Flaw Affecting Millions of Devices
Google fixed 124 Android flaws, including CVE-2025-48595, an actively exploited privilege escalation bug linked to targeted attacks. Google has released its June 2026 Android security updates, fixing 124 vulnerabilities across the mobile operating system. One flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score of 8.4) stands out from the rest because it is already being exploited in…
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Google adds Android protection against AI deepfake scam calls
Google is introducing a new Android security feature that will detect and flag phone calls in which scammers use artificial intelligence to impersonate a user’s personal contacts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-adds-android-protection-against-ai-deepfake-scam-calls/
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Google adds a silent check to catch scammers posing as your contacts
Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/03/android-fake-call-detection-feature/
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What CISOs need to do about post-quantum migration in the next 24 months
In this Help Net Security video, Garfield Jones, SVP Global Strategy and Research, QuSecure, lays out what CISOs should do over the next 24 months. A recent Google paper moved … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/03/post-quantum-migration-timeline-video/
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Google releases June Android security patches addressing 124 vulnerabilities, including 1 zero-day
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/google-releases-june-android-security-patches-addressing-124-vulnerabilities-including-one-zero-day
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Google June 2026 Android Update Patches 124 Flaws, One Actively Exploited
Google on Monday released patches for 124 security vulnerabilities impacting its Android operating system for the month of June 2026, including one high-severity flaw in the Framework component that has come under active exploitation.Tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score: 8.4), the security flaw has been described as a case of privilege escalation without requiring any user…
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Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/android-is-fighting-phone-scams-with-a-new-feature-to-prove-whos-calling/