google – Page 18 – Computer Security Articles

The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

June 28, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alureon, awm proxy, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, dennstr, dmitry starovikov, domaintools, ESET, glupteba botnet, google, kaspersky lab, lycefer, meris, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pay-per-install, riley kilmer, rootkit, rsocks botnet, spur.us, tdl-4, tdss, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:33:31 +0000

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

MalwareBytes Security

Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours

June 27, 2022 admin Bing, brave ads, Brave browser, brave search, brave search features, brave software, brendan eich, brian bondy, discussions, goggles, google, privacy, privacy browser

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:23:53 +0000

Brave Search, the privacy search engine you may not have heard of, is a year old and growing fast.

The post Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

ComputerWorld Independent

Italian spyware firm is hacking into iOS and Android devices, Google says

June 24, 2022 admin android security, apple, google, ios security

Credit to Author: Shweta Sharma| Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:51:00 -0700

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has identified Italian vendor RCS Lab as a spyware offender, developing tools that are being used to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities to effect attacks on iOS and Android mobile users in Italy and Kazakhstan.

According to a Google blog post on Thursday, RCS Lab uses a combination of tactics, including atypical drive-by downloads as initial infection vectors. The company has developed tools to spy on the private data of the targeted devices, the post said.

To read this article in full, please click here

MalwareBytes Security