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Google warns 14,000 Gmail users targeted by Russian hackers:
Google has warned about 14,000 of its users about being targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, a threat group that has been linked to Russia.
The campaign was detected in late September and accounts for a larger than usual batch of Government-Backed Attack notifications that Google sends to targeted users every month.
[...] Shane Huntley, who is at the helm of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) that responds to government-backed hacking, notes that the higher-than-usual number of alerts this month comes from “from a small number of widely targeted campaigns which were blocked.”
The campaign from APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, lead to a larger number of warnings for Gmail users across various industries.
In a statement sent by a Google spokesperson, Huntley says that Fancy Bear’s phishing campaign accounts for 86% of all the batch warnings delivered this month.
[...] “So why do we do these government warnings then? The warning really mostly tells people you are a potential target for the next attack so, now may be a good time to take some security actions” - Shane Huntley
(Score: 1, Troll) by fliptop on Sunday October 10 2021, @12:47PM (2 children)
90% of the spam I receive originates from Gmail. Recently they stopped accepting SpamCop reports. I routinely block Google fiber IP's that conduct Web server and router vulnerability attacks. They seem to be too busy trying to tamp down YouTube users for what they perceive as misinformation to effectively manage their networks. Too big for their britches? Spread too thin over too many products? They're too ubiquitous to block outright, so I recommend to everyone I can they stop using them for searches and email.
There was a time, after the big hack, that most of the spam I received came from Yahoo. For a short time Microsoft took over that role when Outlook.com went online. How I wish for the days when only the occasional Yandex or Bezeqint spam made it through...
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @03:58PM (1 child)
Nice. I see what you did there. They're probably too busy teaching critical race theory too!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @06:04PM
judeo-communists, shabbos goy whores, race traitors and useful idiots will get what's coming to them soon.