Adtech firm also sent 12k phishing warnings to users of its services
Google has said it fired off 12,000 warnings to unlucky users of its GMail, Drive and YouTube services telling them that they’re being phished by state-backed hackers.
The ad tech firm’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in a blog post that between July and September it told people in 149 countries around the world that they were being “targeted by government-backed attackers”, adding that this was consistent with the same number of warnings sent during the same periods of 2017 and 2018.
“Over 90 percent of these users were targeted via ‘credential phishing emails’, wrote Google’s Shane Huntley, who gave an example of one of these phishing emails having been sent from “Goolge”.
TAG went on to highlight a Russian state-sponsored hacking crew named Sandworm* which in 2017 started deploying Android-based malware to the Google Play s ..
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