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Google Chrome Emergency Update Fixes Zero-day Used in Attacks Google has released Chrome 100.0.4896.127 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to fix a high-severity zero-day vulnerability actively used by threat actors in attacks. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1364 exists in the wild,” Google said in a security advisory released today. Read more…

Google: Russian Phishing Attacks Target NATO, European Military The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says more and more threat actors are now using Russia’s war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. The report’s highlight are credential phishing attacks coordinated by a Read more…

Google Chrome 100 Released with New Features, Icon, and More Google has released Chrome 100 today, March 29th, 2022, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes a new logo, security improvements, development features, and more. Today, Google promoted Chrome 100 to the Stable channel, Chrome 101 as the new Beta version, Read more…

Emergency Google Chrome Update Fixes Zero-day Used in Attacks Google has released Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a high-severity zero-day bug exploited in the wild. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild,” the browser vendor said in a security advisory published on Read more…

Russia Bans Google News for “unreliable” info on war in Ukraine Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications regulator, has banned Alphabet’s news aggregator service Google News and blocked access to the news.google.com domain for providing access to “unreliable information” on the ongoing war in Ukraine. “Based on a request from the Russian Prosecutor Read more…

Google Exposes Tactics of a Conti Ransomware Access Broker Google’s Threat Analysis Group has exposed the operations of a threat actor group dubbed “EXOTIC LILY,” an initial access broker linked to the Conti and Diavol ransomware operations. This particular group was first spotted exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft MSHTML Read more…

Google Rolling Out Air Raid Alerts to Android Users in Ukraine Google is rolling out an air raid alert system to all Android phones in Ukraine to help them get back to safety from incoming Russian airstrikes. The new feature was announced via an update to a March 1 blog post Read more…

Google: Chinese Hackers Target Gmail Users Affiliated with US Govt Google’s Threat Analysis Group has warned multiple Gmail users that they were targeted in phishing attacks conducted by a Chinese-backed hacking group tracked as APT31. The warnings came after Gmail’s defenses automatically blocked all these phishing emails after tagging them Read more…

Russia Asks Google to end “misinformation” on “special op” in Ukraine Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, asked Google to stop advertising campaigns spreading misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on YouTube videos. As the Russian telecoms watchdog claims, online ads with inaccurate content and no age labels are being used to Read more…

Hundreds of eBike Phishing Sites Abuse Google Ads to Push Scams A large-scale campaign involving over 200 phishing and scam sites has tricked users into giving their personal data to fake investments schemes impersonating genuine brands. The fraudulent operation relies upon the abuse of Google Ads and SEO to draw Read more…