Tag: google
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108 malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing Google and Telegram data from 20,000 users
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that 108 malicious Google Chrome extensions have been quietly stealing user credentials, hijacking Telegram sessions, and injecting unwanted ads and scripts into browsers – all reporting back to the same central point. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/malicious-chrome-extensions-steal-google-telegram-data
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Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online
Browser fingerprinting is everywhere First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/google_chrome_lacks_browser_fingerprinting/
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Researchers Say Fiverr Left User Files Open to Google Search
Private Fiverr user documents, including tax records and IDs, were reportedly found in Google search results due to a storage configuration issue. Read more about the findings and the company’s response to the data exposure. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fiverr-left-user-files-open-to-google-search/
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Researchers Say Fiverr Left User Files Open to Google Search
Private Fiverr user documents, including tax records and IDs, were reportedly found in Google search results due to a storage configuration issue. Read more about the findings and the company’s response to the data exposure. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fiverr-left-user-files-open-to-google-search/
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Researchers Say Fiverr Left User Files Open to Google Search
Private Fiverr user documents, including tax records and IDs, were reportedly found in Google search results due to a storage configuration issue. Read more about the findings and the company’s response to the data exposure. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fiverr-left-user-files-open-to-google-search/
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Researchers Say Fiverr Left User Files Open to Google Search
Private Fiverr user documents, including tax records and IDs, were reportedly found in Google search results due to a storage configuration issue. Read more about the findings and the company’s response to the data exposure. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fiverr-left-user-files-open-to-google-search/
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Google Play is changing how Android apps access your contacts and location
Google’s new set of Google Play policy updates and account transfer feature strengthen user privacy and protect businesses from fraud. Google is also expanding features for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/16/google-play-store-policy-updates/
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Google expands Gemini AI use to fight malicious ads on its platform
Google says it is increasingly using its Gemini AI models to detect and block harmful ads on its advertising platforms, as scammers and threat actors continue to evolve their tactics to evade detection. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-expands-gemini-ai-use-to-fight-malicious-ads-on-its-platform/
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Cisco FMC Zero-Day Among 31 High-Impact Vulnerabilities Exploited in March
31 high-impact vulnerabilities were actively exploited in March 2026, with a Cisco firewall zero-day abused by the Interlock ransomware group emerging as one of the most dangerous threats to enterprise networks. Affected vendors span core enterprise and developer ecosystems, including Cisco, Microsoft, Google, ConnectWise, Langflow, Citrix, Aquasecurity, Nginx UI, Qualcomm, F5, Craft CMS, Laravel, Apple,…
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Chrome Privacy Vulnerability Exposes Users via Fingerprinting and Header Leaks
A new technical review of Google Chrome’s privacy posture shows that modern tracking no longer depends only on cookies, because websites can combine browser fingerprinting, storage tricks, and HTTP header leaks to identify users with surprising accuracy. Chrome has reduced some obvious signals, but many high-value surfaces such as canvas rendering, WebGL, audio processing, Client…
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Audit: Big Tech Often Ignores CA Privacy Law Opt-Out Requests
Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don’t comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/audit-big-tech-ignores-data-collection-requests
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Über 100 bösartige Erweiterungen im Chrome Web Store entdeckt
Insgesamt 108 Erweiterungen wurden als Teil einer großangelegten Spionage-Kampagne im Chrome Web Store identifiziert, die es gezielt auf Telegram-Sitzungen und Google-Identitäten abgesehen hat. Trotz der Warnungen sind viele der gefährlichen Tools noch immer für Nutzer zugänglich. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/chrome-web-store
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7 biggest healthcare security threats
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, google, government, hacking, healthcare, HIPAA, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, phishing, risk, security-incident, service, software, spam, sql, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations: Many healthcare organizations have adopted cloud services as part of broader digital transformation initiatives. As a result, patient health information (PHI) and other sensitive data is increasingly being hosted in vendor cloud environments.The trend has broadened attack surface at healthcare organizations, says Anthony James, vice president of products at Infoblox, especially…
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7 biggest healthcare security threats
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, google, government, hacking, healthcare, HIPAA, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, phishing, risk, security-incident, service, software, spam, sql, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations: Many healthcare organizations have adopted cloud services as part of broader digital transformation initiatives. As a result, patient health information (PHI) and other sensitive data is increasingly being hosted in vendor cloud environments.The trend has broadened attack surface at healthcare organizations, says Anthony James, vice president of products at Infoblox, especially…
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Over 100 Chrome Web Store extensions steal user accounts, data
More than 100 malicious extensions in the official Chrome Web Store are attempting to steal Google OAuth2 Bearer tokens, deploy backdoors, and carry out ad fraud. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-100-chrome-extensions-in-web-store-target-users-accounts-and-data/
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Over 100 Chrome extensions in Web Store target users accounts and data
More than 100 malicious extensions in the official Chrome Web Store are attempting to steal Google OAuth2 Bearer tokens, deploy backdoors, and carry out ad fraud. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-100-chrome-extensions-in-web-store-target-users-accounts-and-data/
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AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into Google’s Discover feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser notifications that lead to scareware and financial scams.The campaign, which has been First seen…
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Google $135M Settlement: Millions of Android Users May Qualify for Payout
Android users may be eligible for a payout from Google’s $135 million settlement over background data use. Here’s who qualifies and how to claim. The post Google $135M Settlement: Millions of Android Users May Qualify for Payout appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-135m-android-data-settlement-payout/
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Malicious Chrome Extensions Campaign Exposes User Data
108 malicious Chrome extensions steal sessions, Google data, inject ads via single C2 infrastructure First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chrome-extensions-expose-user-data/
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Google Adds Rust-Based DNS Parser into Pixel 10 Modem to Enhance Security
Google has announced the integration of a Rust-based Domain Name System (DNS) parser into the modem firmware as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the security of Pixel devices and push memory-safe code at a more foundational level.”The new Rust-based DNS parser significantly reduces our security risk by mitigating an entire class of…
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GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags
For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/guest-essay-googles-2029-deadline-exposes-readiness-gap-as-move-to-quantum-safe-crypto-lags/
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Google to penalize sites that hijack the back button
Google is broadening its spam policies to crack down on >>back button hijacking,<< a deceptive practice where websites interfere with browser navigation, blocking … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/google-back-button-hijacking/
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Tags: ai, attack, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cve, cyber, data, detection, email, endpoint, framework, google, governance, group, incident response, intelligence, international, jobs, kev, malware, network, nist, organized, phishing, risk, skills, soc, switch, technology, threat, toolReducing alert fatigue: In alert triage, AI agents are reducing alert fatigue by clustering alert patterns and enabling risk-based prioritization, adds Dipto Chakravarty, chief product and technology officer at Black Duck.For example, natural language processing agents can summarize threat alerts at scale and correlate them with threat intel feeds such as CVE.org and the CISA KEV Catalog,…
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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary JavaScript code into every web page visited.According to Socket, the extensions are…
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Best of the Worst: Five Attacks That Already Knew Your Name
<div cla TL;DR This week’s Attack of the Day posts revealed a clear shift from volume to precision. A phishing PDF auto-launched a credential harvest page the instant it opened, no click required. A QR code inside another PDF had the target’s email address pre-encoded in base64, so the landing page pre-filled the victim’s username…
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Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets
Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_foundation_social_engineering/
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Google Rolls Out EndEnd Encryption to Eligible Gmail Users on Mobile
Google has brought end-to-end encrypted Gmail to Android and iOS for eligible Workspace users, extending secure mobile email without extra apps. The post Google Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption to Eligible Gmail Users on Mobile appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-gmail-end-to-end-encryption-mobile/
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BITTER APT Uses Signal, Google, and Zoom Lures to Spread ProSpy Spyware
BITTER APT spreads ProSpy and ToSpy via Signal, Google, and Zoom lures, targeting journalists through LinkedIn and iMessage spearphishing. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/bitter-apt-signal-google-zoom-prospy-spyware/
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APT41 Delivers ‘Zero-Detection’ Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials
The prolific China-backed threat group is targeting AWS, Google, Azure, and Alibaba cloud environments and using typosquatting to obscure C2 communication. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/apt41-zero-detection-backdoor-harvest-cloud-credentials
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APT41 Delivers ‘Zero-Detection’ Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials
The prolific China-backed threat group is targeting AWS, Google, Azure, and Alibaba cloud environments and using typosquatting to obscure C2 communication. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/apt41-zero-detection-backdoor-harvest-cloud-credentials