Google warns of surge in activity by state-backed hackers, Russia, China, Iran, they’re after your data
Read the full Guardian article here Google has warned of a surge in activity by government-backed hackers this year, including attacks from an Iranian group whose targets included a UK university. The search group said that so far in 2021 it had sent more than 50,000 warnings to account holders that they had been a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. This represents an increase of a third on the same period last year, Google said in a blogpost, with the rise attributed to an “unusually large campaign” by a Russian hacking group known as APT28, or Fancy Bear.is a series of market research reports published by IT consulting firm Gartner that rely on proprietary qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends, such as direction, maturity and participants. Their analyses are conducted for several specific technology industries and are updated every 1–2 years.
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Jeremy Yeatman, Datanet’s Account Manager added: This page here is quite a good overview of the whole “Threat Landscape” with some mentions of state backed cyber attack groups.
Mike Reed, Datanet’s Technical Support Engineer commented: In general, a Fortigate solution will protect you from some of this sort of thing because of the Fortiguard features – Fortinet have a team of elves who go around the internet categorising links. Sometimes they say “don’t know” and then you can provide a rating which one of the elves will double-check and then it helps all of Fortinet’s other customers when their Fortigate downloads updates in an hour’s time. (Fortiguard categories here: In practice, state-backed hackers are a cut above the ones who send you the daft looking text messages asking you to visit the Hermes web site and pay to get your parcel re-delivered… and plenty of people still click on those 🙂
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Six Steps for Securing Your Remote Workers
Simple Steps to Protect Against Social Engineering Attacks
What is a Next Generation Firewall?
Next Generation Firewall versus Traditional Firewall (credit: DigitalGuardian.com)
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