As per the metric shared by the company, India was among those countries that was targeted the most by government-backed phishing scams last year. Other countries included the US, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Google’ Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has given some fresh information and stats on what it is doing to safeguarding end users from phishing scams and zero-day vulnerabilities. The team states that last year it sent almost 40,000 warnings to people, making them aware that their accounts are possible targets of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. However, this was a 25% decline from 2018. As per Google, the reason for decline is that its new protections are working.
The security engineer at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, Toni Gidwani added that this year they’ve seen ‘rising number of attackers’ coming from North Korea and Iran. These usually impersonate news outlets and journalists so they can seed false stories on the web creating disturbance between countries and communities.
The security engineer at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, Toni Gidwani added that this year they’ve seen ‘rising number of attackers’ coming from North Korea and Iran. These usually impersonate news outlets and journalists so they can seed false stories on the web creating disturbance between countries and communities.
The hackers are said to attack government rivals, government officials, dissidents and activists as well. The company even shared Russian threat actor group SANDWORM’s targeting efforts (by sector) over the last three years.
