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Google Calendar Now Lets you Block Invitation Phishing Attempts Google now makes it easy to block unwanted calendar invitations, commonly used by threat actors in phishing and malicious campaigns, from being added to your Google Calendar. This was achieved by improving the “Automatically add invitations” setting which now allows you Read more…

Google Chromebooks Failing to Enroll Due to Network Issue Since Thursday evening, Google has been investigating reports of customers having issues enrolling their Chromebooks with a network error. According to user reports, “network not available” errors are displayed on the screen after booting into Chrome OS and trying to enroll Read more…

Emergency Google Chrome Update Fixes Zero-days Used in Attacks Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers have actively exploited. “Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 exist in the wild,” Google disclosed in the list of security fixes in today’s Read more…

Google Cuts Play Store Dev Fees to 15% For All Subscriptions Google announced that they are dropping the 30% flat service fee for in-app purchases or app sales to 15% starting January 1, 2022.  The tech giant previously offered this discount after 12 months of a recurring subscription, but with Read more…

Google Launches Android Enterprise Bug Bounty Program Google has announced the launch of its first vulnerability rewards program for Android Enterprise with bounties of up to $250,000. This builds on the introduction of several enhancements with Android 12 to boost the platform’s overall security. Security enhancements included with the latest Android version range from toggling Read more…

Google: YouTubers’ Accounts Hijacked With Cookie-stealing Malware Google says YouTube creators have been targeted with password-stealing malware in phishing attacks coordinated by financially motivated threat actors. Researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), who first spotted the campaign in late 2019, found that multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited via job ads Read more…

Google Sent 50,000 Warnings Of State-Sponsored Attacks In 2021 Google said today that it sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021, a considerable increase compared to the previous year. “So far in 2021, we’ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this Read more…

Malicious Chrome Ad Blocker Injects Ads Behind The Scenes The AllBlock Chromium ad blocking extension has been found to be injecting hidden affiliate links that generate commissions for the developers. This extension is still available on Chrome’s Web Store and promotes itself as an ad blocker that focuses on YouTube Read more…

Photo Editor Android App STILL Sitting On Google Play Store Is Malware Note: The app was shortly removed after BleepingComputer reported it to Google via Play store. An Android app sitting on the Google Play store touts itself to be a photo editor app. But, it contains code that steals the user’s Facebook credentials to potentially Read more…

Google To Auto-enroll 150 Million User Accounts Into 2FA Google announced today that they plan on auto-enrolling 150 million accounts into two-factor authentication by the end of 2021. To protect Google accounts from unauthorized access, it is possible to enroll in an optional security feature called two-factor authentication, or as Read more…