Cybersecurity

Malicious Ads on Google Target Chinese Users with Fake Messaging Apps

Jan 26, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Phishing-as-a-service Chinese-speaking users have been targeted by malicious Google ads for restricted messaging apps like Telegram as part of an ongoing malvertising campaign. “The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead,” Malwarebytes’ […]

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How the Sys:All Loophole Allowed Us To Penetrate GKE Clusters in Production

Following our discovery of a critical loophole in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) dubbed Sys:All, we decided to conduct research into the real-world impacts of this issue. Our initial probe already revealed over a thousand vulnerable GKE clusters due to admins configuring RBAC bindings making the system:authenticated group overprivileged, which could potentially allow any Google account […]

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Google Kubernetes Misconfig Lets Any Gmail Account Control Your Clusters

Jan 24, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Kubernetes Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. The critical shortcoming has been codenamed Sys:All by cloud security firm Orca. As many as 250,000 active GKE clusters […]

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DriveFS Sleuth: Open-source tool for investigating Google Drive File Stream’s disk forensic artifacts – Help Net Security

DriveFS Sleuth automates the investigation of Google Drive File Stream disk artifacts. The tool can parse the disk artifacts and build a filesystem tree-like structure enumerating the synchronized files along with their respective properties. “While engaged in a threat-hunting activity for a client to detect the misuse of file-syncing applications within their network, I identified […]