3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches

An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk...

The forgotten malvertising campaign

In recent weeks, we have noted an increase in malvertising campaigns via Google searches. Several of the threat actors we are tracking have improved their techniques to evade detection throughout the delivery chain. We believe this evolution will have a real world impact among corporate users...

Ad-blocker Chrome extension AllBlock injected ads in Google searches

By Deeba Ahmed AllBlock was available on Google Chrome's Web Store where it is marketed as a potent Ad Blocker focusing on Facebook and YouTube to prevent pop-ups. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ad-blocker Chrome extension AllBlock injected ads in Google searches...

Google Searches Expose Stolen Corporate Credentials

Attackers behind a recently discovered phishing campaign have unintentionally left more than 1,000 stolen credentials available online via simple Google searches, researchers have found. The campaign, which began in August 2020, used e-mails that spoof notifications from Xerox scans to lure victi...

USN-3477-2: Firefox regression

USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused search suggestions to not be displayed when performing Google searches from the search bar. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in...

One million pages infected by Lilupophilupop SQL injection

One million pages infected by Lilupophilupop SQL injection ISC Internet Storm Center reported that lilupophilupop.com SQL injection attacks. There were about 80 pages infected according to Google searches few weeks back and now it raise to over 1 million . sites being injected with string :...

Apple Updates XProtect to Detect Mac Trojan

Apple released an update today for its built-in, malware protection platform, XProtect, in response to the emergence of Mac-targeting trojan that hijacks Google searches, according to an article posted on Softpedia. Once the trojan has installed itself on a user’s machine, it starts adding fake...

Pakistan Leads Global WikiLeaks Searches Amid Diplomatic Cable Leak

The leaked American diplomatic cables released by whistleblower WikiLeaks this week have not only taken the world’s governments and financial markets by storm but have also caused a stir in Pakistani cyberspace. Pakistan has topped the global charts for 'WikiLeaks' searches on Google. Pakistan's...

Blippy Accidentally Gives Up Credit Card Numbers

Blippy users recently got a taste of the social media fad’s dark side when simple Google searches turned up 127 transactions that included credit card numbers of four users. Read the full article. The Register...

Hidden message in Verizon breach report

Last week, after I dropped clues that the cover of this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report contained a cryptographic challenge, several readers immediately jumped on the challenge. In this blog post, Veracode’s Chris Eng provides a fun walk-through of how he decoded the pattern of 1...