Collaborate Disseminate
Google’s Threat Analysis Group is calling the hackers Exotic Lily, and it says they employed relatively novel tactics.
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Google has seen a rising number of attackers impersonating news outlets and journalists to spread fake news among other reporters. Continue reading Google sent ~40K warnings to targets of state-backed attackers in 2019
Google has seen a rising number of attackers impersonating news outlets and journalists to spread fake news among other reporters. Continue reading Google sent ~40K warnings to targets of state-backed attackers in 2019
Indiscriminate email hacking campaigns are so 2018. Some attackers have shifted away from sending a high volume of malicious emails in favor of more customized attacks aimed at high value targets. Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which tries to stop state-sponsored hacking, sent nearly 40,000 warnings in 2019 to users alerting them that they were the target of a government-backed phishing attempt. That figure is down by nearly 25% from 2018, the company said in a blog post Thursday. One-in-five of the accounts targeted in 2019 was targeted multiple times. “If at first the attacker does not succeed, they’ll try again using a different lure, different account, or trying to compromise an associate of the target,” Toni Gidwani, a security engineering manager at the company’s Threat Analysis Group, said in the blog post. Yet that drop preceded an uptick in 2020 in attempted attacks. The hackers behind the most recent wave […]
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