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CloudSEK, a threat intelligence company, publishes research on data breaches, malware, ransomware, and exploited vulnerabilities.
What HN saysHN commenters cite its reports on Google cookie regeneration and the disputed Oracle Cloud breach, noting CloudSEK stood by its claims with more evidence.
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- 1Exploiting Undocumented API to Regenerate Google Service Cookies5 people · 54 points · first shared 2023 · 7 comments on HN
- 2GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor2 people · 505 points · first shared 2022 · 340 comments on HN
- 3No Honour Among Thieves: Uncovering a Trojanized XWorm Rat Builder Propagated By2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Part 2: Validating the Breach Oracle Cloud Denied2 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5Hack: 6M Records for Sale Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud Affecting 140k+ Tenants1 people · 39 points · first shared 2025 · 17 comments on HN
- 62,500 Companies and 434,000 Pipelines Exposed – Largest AI Supply Chain Breach1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 7PrintSteal: Exposing Unauthorized Websites Engaging in KYC Document Fraud1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 8Threat Actors Abuse AI-Generated YouTube Videos to Spread Stealer Malware1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9Homepage1 people · first shared 2020
- 10Security flaw in atlassian products jira confluencetrello bitbucket affecting multiple companies1 people · first shared 2023
- 11Senior threat intel lead manager bangalore1 people · first shared 2020
- 12Cybersecurity analyst1 people · first shared 2020
- 13Devops engineer1 people · first shared 2020
- 14Jobs1 people · first shared 2020
- 15Copy of malware intelligence analysis of daam android malware1 people · first shared 2024
What HN people wrote when they linked it
francovp · 2025-03-24
The original reporter (CloudSek) is doubling down in his claims and now they put some evidence that contradicts Oracle https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/part-2-validating-the-breach-oracle-clou…
armchairhacker · 2024-01-05
> Last October 2023, a user known by the pseudonym PRISMA revealed on his Telegram channel that he had managed to restore expired Google authentication cookies. This allowed him to access Gmail accounts, even if the user had changed the password, and generate new session cookies with which to continue entering them in an unauthorized manner.
> Specifically, what they do is take advantage of an endpoint called MultiLogin from Google OAuth to log into user accounts without having to follow the authentication process. This was revealed in a publication on his official blog
The blog (https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/compromising-google-accounts-malwares-ex… goes into a lot more detail. In particular is this point:
> While we await a comprehensive solution from Google, users can take immediate action to safeguard against this exploit. If you suspect your account may have been compromised, or as a general precaution, sign out of all browser profiles to invalidate the current session tokens. Following this, reset your password and sign back in to generate new tokens. This is especially crucial for users whose tokens and GAIA IDs might have been exfiltrated. Resetting your password effectively disrupts unauthorized access by invalidating the old tokens which the infostealers rely on, thus providing a crucial barrier to the continuation of their exploit.
I'm confused on how and why the exploit and "safeguard" (not even…
rvz · 2024-01-26
No wonder that explains the amount of ransomware garbage on Android devices out there: [0] and it is more prevalent on Android than iOS. [1]
[0] https://www.cloudsek.com/threatintelligence/copy-of-malware-intelligen…
[1] https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/09/22/apps-attack-risk
ademarre · 2023-12-31
This would be a better link; the blog post on which the Bleeping Computer article is primarily based. They refer to it but never link to it:
https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/compromising-google-accounts-malwares-ex…
m3047 · 2023-01-23
Here's a real-world example: https://cloudsek.com/security-flaw-in-atlassian-products-jira-confluen…
"... cookie validity is 30 days. They only expire when the user logs out, or after 30 days."
sahilamanu · 2020-05-04
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