Google Threat Intelligence Group

Google shares 'Extortion email' sample that US firms may end up losing millions to

Google has published a new report warning against ongoing targeted campaigns against American companies by cyber criminals. Published by Google’s cybersecurity teams Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group, the report highlighted a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as "Luna Moth," “Chatty Spider,” and "Silent Ransom Group") targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the...

Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload

Google job cuts: Company says evaluating internal structures

Google has laid off emlpoyees in its Cloud division, including staff at its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant, the cybersecurity firm it acquired in 2022. According to a report by Business Insider, the job cuts which have unfolded over the past two weeks, mark the latest round of layoffs in Big Tech as companies redirect resources towards artificial intelligence. The layoffs at Google follow similar moves across the tech industry.

CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet

CrowdStrike, in collaboration with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, successfully dismantled the Glassworm botnet, a sophisticated, self-propagating worm. This malware targeted developers by spreading through poisoned software packages and used complex infrastructure, including blockchain and Google Calendar, to evade detection. The coordinated takedown severed the attackers' command-and-control channels, mitigating the threat to the software development community.

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: The start of a worrisome Linux security trend

Five Eyes spy agencies issue warning over LinkedIn recruitment by Chinese intelligence

LONDON — The spy agencies of the Five Eyes international intelligence partnership warned on Wednesday that Chinese spies are attempting to recruit and compromise government and military personnel to gain a tactical advantage over the U.S. and its allies. In a rare joint bulletin, the intelligence agencies of Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand warned that China is increasingly using professional networking sites and job platforms — including LinkedIn and Indeed — to gain...

Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds

A new extortion brand called Pink uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain initial access to organizations’ IT environments, steal their sensitive data, and threaten to leak it unless the victims pay a ransom demand. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 first spotted the gang, which it tracks as cluster CL-CRI-1147, and its data-leak site, which went live on May 31. “Pink uses vishing and IT impersonation to phish credentials/MFA, then exfiltrates enterprise cloud storage and productivity...

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019.

'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT

Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions to scheduling software, anointing them with billion-dollar valuations before most even turned a profit. It was a frothy era for startups, fueled by a combination of cheap money and pandemic-boosted demand. But even after the Federal Reserve took some froth off by starting to raise interest rates in 2022, many founders believed that they could grow into their inflated...

Sen Tom Cotton urges DOJ to probe Chinese bid to 'kneecap' American AI

Sen. Tom Cotton urged the Justice Department to investigate a covert campaign linked to China designed to "kneecap" America's rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. In the letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Arkansas Republican calls for federal investigators to examine whether foreign actors are attempting to shape U.S. public opinion and policy against data centers and AI development as Washington and...