![]() ![]() He elaborated on the purpose of the government-backed activity notices, which is to help targets prepare for an attack: He explained that the alerts issued suggest targeting of a mail recipient, but not their Gmail account being compromised. ![]() In a recent statement issued by a nominated spokesperson for Google, Huntley commented that activity from Fancy Bear’s latest phishing campaign accounted for 86% of the entire batch of warnings presented to Gmail users for the month. The identified APT28 (also well-known as Fancy Bear) campaign leads to a greater number of cautions than usual for Gmail users operating in various sectors. “…a small number of widely targeted campaigns which were blocked.” Shane Huntley, leader of Google’s dedicated Threat Analysis Group (TAG) charged with responding to government-backed hacks, noted that this above average number of notifications originated from what he referred to as: The recent campaign was spotted towards the end of September and amounts to a larger batch than usual of government-supported attack notices that Google regularly sends out to targeted users each month. The threat group APT28 is said to be behind the phishing campaign – a group that has previously been connected to Russia. ![]() Google has now warned around 14,000 individuals using its mail services regarding users being targeted by a state-sponsored cybercriminal campaign. ![]()
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