https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-just-three-months-google-sent-12k-warnings-about-government-backed-attacks/
By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
November 26, 2019
Google sent more than 12,000 security warnings to users in 149 countries about
email attacks coming from a government-backed hacking group.
The number only includes alerts sent between July and September 2019, Google
said in a blog post today authored by Shane Huntley, a member of the company's
Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Google's elite hacker-hunting unit.
Huntley said the three-month stat is within a +/-10% margin of the number of
warnings sent in the same period of 2018 and 2017, suggesting that there hasn't
been a huge escalation or drop in the number of government-backed attacks in
the past few years.
Most of these alerts were sent to users in the US and Pakistan, according to a
heatmap shared by the company.
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