Website owners are being targeted with fake copyright infringement complaints that utilize Yandex Forms to distribute the IcedID banking malware. For over a year, threat actors tracked as TA578 have been conducting these attacks where they use a website’s contact page to send legal threats to convince recipients to download a report of the offending material. These reports allegedly contain proof of DDoS attacks or copyrighted material used without permission but instead infect a target’s… Source link
Read More »Google’s cloud group forms Web3 product and engineering team
Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s cloud unit is forming a team to build services for developers running blockchain applications as the company tries to capitalize on the surging popularity of crypto and related projects. Amit Zavery, a vice president at Google Cloud, told employees in an email Friday that the idea is to make the… Source link
Read More »Afghans are being evacuated via WhatsApp, Google Forms, or by any means possible
The sudden collapse of Afghanistan’s government has led to a frantic attempt to accelerate online relief and evacuation efforts. These attempts, organized largely via Google Forms, WhatsApp and ,private social media groups, are trying to fill the void left by the US government’s failure to protect vulnerable Afghans. It could be the only lifeline for many trying to flee the country—but at the same time it is not without risk, as observers fear crowdsourced information could be used by… Source link
Read More »Union at Google Parent Company Forms International Alliance
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