Google: 80% of news organisations are targeted by state hackers

[Venustus]

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/28/google-news-organisations-targeted-state-hackers

More than four-fifths of the world's top media organisations, including the Guardian, have been the target of likely state sponsored hacking attacks, according to research from two Google security engineers.

Presented at the ongoing Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.

While the pair didn't go into detail about their methodology, they confirmed to Reuters that Google "tracks the state actors that attack our users".

Those who the company suspects have been the target of such attacks are notified by a banner across the top of their webmail login, such as this displayed to Guardian staffers since mid-March:

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[Prorootect]

Yes, I posted similar news on the 'Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers' .. - you have the better title!
So majority, large majority of hacker attacks has from various Governments .. Electronic Warfare - EW - in plain boom!
China, India, Russia, Arab states, Israel, USA too ..
.. not me.
.. better this than bombarding the innocent people

 

[Prorootect]

But would be better to channel this energy to create to make good, not to do EW.
- human stupidity is infinite, cats are wiser

 

[Prorootect]

About 'Who is responsible for malware' -read too in our topic: Fake AV: .ru sites used for redirections : http://malwaretips.com/threads/fake-av-ru-sites-used-for-redirections.6475/
Quote:
'As you can see, Russian and Ukrainian criminals are overwhelmingly responsible for the distribution of malware at The Planet' ..

 

[Prorootect]

Report: 2014 DDoS Trends - Botnet Activity is up by 240%. - on incapsula.com blog : http://www.incapsula.com/blog/ddos-threat-landscape-report-2014.html
ddos attack trends 2013 - 2014 crop enhanced.jpg

Hmm .. and what about Russia and Ukraine ?.. forgotten, why?
So look on the topic: Fake AV: .ru sites used for redirections : http://malwaretips.com/threads/fake-av-ru-sites-used-for-redirections.6475/
Quote:
'As you can see, Russian and Ukrainian criminals are overwhelmingly responsible for the distribution of malware at The Planet'

Look here too : arturai.com : http://www.arturai.com/noticia/18/European-Safer-Internet-Day?lingua=en

 

[Igal]

Hi
I work for Incapsula.
We only shown top 5 in infographic but we have a "top 10 list" in the report itself.
(see it here: http://www.incapsula.com/images/blog/images/2013-14_ddos_threat_landscape.pdf)

In the report Russia was #8 with 3.45%, Ukrain wasn't in top ten, but the list if for origin of DDoS attacks, not malware, and we might be talking about somewhat different resources.

Having said that, there should be no logical correlation between the hacker's location and the geo-location of his/hers resources.
For example, I wouldn't be surprised (at all) to learn about a Russian hacker using compromised Indian servers to attack US based website.

 

[Prorootect]

Hello Igal, Welcome to MT!
'..there should be no logical correlation between the hacker's location and the geo-location of his/hers resources.
For example, I wouldn't be surprised (at all) to learn about a Russian hacker using compromised Indian servers to attack US based website.' - sure.

 

[Igal]

Hey
Thanks