Tag: google
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Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build
Tags: googleStill plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/04/25/google_admits_depreciation_costs_soaring/
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Two Systemic Jailbreaks Uncovered, Exposing Widespread Vulnerabilities in Generative AI Models
Two significant security vulnerabilities in generative AI systems have been discovered, allowing attackers to bypass safety protocols and extract potentially dangerous content from multiple popular AI platforms. These >>jailbreaks
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Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control
Plus: Cybercriminals stole a record-breaking fortune from US residents and businesses in 2024, and Google performs its final flip-flop in its yearslong quest to kill tracking cookies. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/pete-hegseths-signal-scandal-spirals-out-of-control/
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Darcula phishing toolkit gets AI boost, democratizing cybercrime
Tags: ai, apt, attack, automation, awareness, china, credentials, cybercrime, defense, detection, endpoint, finance, google, government, group, infrastructure, malicious, network, phishing, resilience, risk, service, skills, smishing, threat, tool, training, updateAI creates push-button phishing attacks: With the latest update to the “darcula-suite” toolkit, users can now generate phishing pages using generative AI that mimics websites with near-perfect accuracy, and in any language.”Users provide a URL of a legitimate brand or service, and the tool automatically visits that website, downloads all of its assets, and renders…
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Chrome UAF Process Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited
Security researchers have revealed that two critical use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities in Google Chrome’s Browser process were actively exploited in the wild, exposing users to potential sandbox escapes and arbitrary code execution. However, Google’s deployment of the MiraclePtr defense mechanism ensures these flaws are no longer exploitable, marking a significant milestone in browser security. Technical Analysis…
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RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox – Aurascape: Reconstructing the Intelligent Defense Line of AI Interactive Visibility and Native Security
Tags: ai, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, google, infrastructure, intelligence, network, startup, technologyCompany Overview Aurascape is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2023 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The company was co-founded by senior security experts and engineers from world-class technology companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Google, and Amazon. The team has deep expertise in the fields of network security, artificial intelligence, and network infrastructure,…The…
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5 Most Common Security Attack Methods in 2024: Mandiant’s M-Trends Report
Mandiant, which was acquired by Google Cloud in 2022, paints a picture of global cyber threats from last year in order to help readers be better prepared this year. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-mandiant-m-trends-security-report/
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Lesson from huge Blue Shield California data breach: Read the manual
read the documentation of any third party service you sign up for, to understand the security and privacy controls;know what data is being collected from your organization, and what you don’t want shared.”It’s important to understand these giant platforms make it easy for you to share your data across their various services,” he said. “So…
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Beyond the Inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report Reveals How Phishing Is Evolving in the Age of GenAI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, captcha, cloud, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, dmarc, email, exploit, finance, google, identity, jobs, login, malicious, malware, mfa, phishing, radius, risk, scam, spam, strategy, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustGone are the days of mass phishing campaigns. Today’s attackers are leveraging generative AI (GenAI) to deliver hyper-targeted scams, transforming every email, text, or call into a calculated act of manipulation. With flawless lures and tactics designed to outsmart AI defenses, cybercriminals are zeroing in on HR, payroll, and finance teams”, exploiting human vulnerabilities with…
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Blue Shield of California exposes 4.7M individuals’ data to Google Ads
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/blue-shield-of-california-exposes-4-7m-individuals-data-to-google-ads
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Client-Side Security Breach Alert: Blue Shield of California Exposes 4.7 Million Members’ Health Data Through Web Analytics Configuration
by Source Defense A recent incident at Blue Shield of California highlights the critical importance of client-side security controls when implementing third-party scripts on healthcare websites. The nonprofit health plan has disclosed a significant data breach affecting 4.7 million members, stemming from a misconfiguration of Google Analytics on their web properties between April 2021 and…
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Breach Roundup: Cookie Bite Exposes MFA Achilles Heel
Tags: attack, breach, cyberattack, data, data-breach, google, mfa, microsoft, north-korea, ransomwareAlso, Blue Shield Breach Exposes 4.7M, Cyberattack Disrupts City Systems in Texas. This week, Cookie Bite bypasses MFA in Azure Entra ID, Microsoft fixed RDP Freezes, a ransomware attack in Catalonia, Blue Shield exposed data to Google, a cyberattack disrupted city systems in Texas, South Korean telecom breach exposed USIM data and a warning about…
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Blue Shield Leaked Millions of Patient Info to Google for Years
Blue Shield of California exposed the health data of 4.7 million members to Google for years due to… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/blue-shield-leaked-millions-patient-info-google-years/
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Gmail’s New Encrypted Messages Feature Opens a Door for Scams
Google is rolling out an end-to-end encrypted email feature for business customers, but it could spawn phishing attacks, particularly in non-Gmail inboxes. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-scams/
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Blue Shield of California Data Breach Affects 4.7 Million Members
A misconfigured tracking tool has exposed protected health information of 4.7 million Blue Shield members to Google Ads First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/blue-shield-california-data-breach/
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Phishing-Angriffe zunehmend via Google-Drive
Für den Januar dieses Jahres haben Forscher der KnowBe4-Threat Labs einen deutlichen Anstieg der über Google-Drive verübten Phishing-Angriffe festgestellt. Cyberkriminelle laden mit bösartigen Links versehene PDFs auf Google-Drive hoch und teilen diese dann mit den von ihnen anvisierten Opfern. Die von Google beim Teilen des Dokuments automatisch versandte E-Mail-Benachrichtigung, das auf Drive ein Dokument zur…
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10 key questions security leaders must ask at RSA 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, authentication, automation, business, cisa, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fido, finance, gartner, google, government, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, mssp, network, nist, passkey, password, phone, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustIs agentic AI more myth than reality?: Building on 2024’s AI enthusiasm, this year will be all about agentic AI, defined as “a type of AI that enables software systems to act autonomously, making decisions and taking actions based on goals, with minimal human intervention,” according to AI itself (source: Google Gemini). We’ll see lots…
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Google Warns: Threat Actors Growing More Sophisticated, Exploiting Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Google’s Mandiant team has released its M-Trends 2025 report, highlighting the increasing sophistication of threat actors, particularly China-nexus groups. These adversaries are deploying custom malware ecosystems, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in security appliances, and utilizing proxy networks resembling botnets to evade detection. Their tactics also include targeting edge devices lacking endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities…
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Google Chrome Keeps Third-Party Cookies Settings, Lets Users ‘Make an Informed Choice’
Privacy Sandbox, originally pitched as an alternative to cross-site ad tracking, will not show a standalone prompt. Instead, Chrome is readying a different “informed choice.” First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/new-google-chrome-privacy-sandbox-third-party-ads/
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Blue Shield Exposed Health Data of 4.7 Million via Google Ads
Blue Shield of California has disclosed a significant data privacy incident affecting up to 4.7 million members, after discovering that protected health information (PHI) may have been inadvertently shared with Google Ads over nearly three years. The healthcare provider is now alerting potentially impacted members and implementing new safeguards to prevent future breaches. The breach…
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Fake Google Security Alert Hides a Phishing Scam
A developer reported the scam after noticing a slight discrepancy in the email address. The scam passed Google’s own DKIM checks. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-oauth-scam/
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Over 6 Million Chrome Extensions Found Executing Remote Commands
Security researchers have uncovered a network of over 35 Google Chrome extensions”, collectively installed on more than 6 million browsers”, secretly executing remote commands and potentially spying on users for years. The alarming discovery began during a routine security review at an organization using a monitoring feature provided by Secure Annex. Among a list of…
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Google, AWS say it’s too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure
Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/swapping_linux_for_microsoft_is_hard/
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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
Bezos’ biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn’t fair First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/aws_microsoft_license_harms/
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CVE-Finanzierung weiterhin gesichert
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, docker, google, governance, government, infrastructure, mitre, open-source, technology, tool, usa, vulnerabilityExperten warnten, dass ohne CVE ein Koordinationschaos in der IT-Sicherheit droht. Die CISA scheint sie erhört zu haben.Am 16. April 2025 hatte die Trump-Regierung kurzfristig ein Ende der Finanzierung des weltweit bedeutenden CVE-Programms (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), das seit 25 Jahren eine zentrale Rolle in der Cybersicherheitslandschaft spielt, verkündet. Die gemeinnützige Organisation MITRE, die das…
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Google Removes 5.5 Billion Malicious Ads, Suspends 700,000+ Offending Advertisers
Google has announced the removal of 5.5 billion malicious advertisements and the suspension of over 700,000 offending advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its recently released Ads Safety Report. This accomplishment underscores Google’s ongoing commitment to fighting digital ad fraud, abuse, and policy violations, and demonstrates the growing power of AI in protecting both […]…
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Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
When the power went out, they didn’t switch on First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/google_cloud_useast5c_outage_report/
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Deloitte Teams With Google Cloud and Rubrik to Modernize Cybersecurity
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/deloitte-teams-with-google-cloud-and-rubrik-to-modernize-cybersecurity