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Google Says Former Conti Ransomware Members Now Attack Ukraine Google says some former Conti cybercrime gang members, now part of a threat group tracked as UAC-0098, are targeting Ukrainian organizations and European non-governmental organizations (NGOs). UAC-0098 is an initial access broker known for using the IcedID banking trojan to provide Read more…

Google Chrome Emergency Update Fixes New Zero-day Used in Attacks Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw, the sixth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks patched this year. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-3075 exists in Read more…

Google Blocks Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack ‘reported to date’ A Google Cloud Armor customer was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the HTTPS protocol that reached 46 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest ever recorded of its kind. In just two minutes, the attack escalated Read more…

Google Fixes Fifth Chrome Zero-day Bug Exploited this Year Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser that addresses close to a dozen vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that is being exploited in the wild. The security update is currently rolling out for Windows, Mac and Linux. Users who have Read more…

Google Fined $60 million Over Android Location Data Collection The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018. The Australian competition Read more…

Google Now Blocks Workspace Account Hijacking Attempts Automatically Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) now has stronger protections for risky account actions, automatically blocking hijacking attempts with identity verification prompts and logging them for further investigation. This added layer of security will block threat actors who gain access to a user’s Read more…

Google Blocks Site of Largest Computing Society for Being ‘harmful’ Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in NYC as a non-profit, The Association Read more…

Google Boosts Android Privacy with Support for DNS-over-HTTP/3 Google has added support for the DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) protocol on Android 11 and later to increase the privacy of DNS queries while providing better performance. HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which relies on QUIC, a multiplexed Read more…

New Google Chrome Feature Reduces CPU Use to Extend Battery Life Google is testing a new ‘Quick Intensive Throttling’ feature that reduces CPU time by 10%, extending the battery life for laptops and mobile devices. In Chrome 87, Google introduced a new feature called ‘Intensive Wake Up Throttling’ that prevents Read more…

Google Patches New Chrome zero-day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild, the fourth Chrome zero-day patched in 2022. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-2294 exists in the wild.,” the browser Read more…