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CyberSeeker , 2 months ago to Technology in Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm

What’s worrying about this report is that it’s coming from Google itself.

Google just bought Mandiant, one of the leading cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms. Therefore, Google is one of the leading cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-makes-second-largest-acquisition-ever-5-4-billion-for-mandiant/

It’s now expected that Google would release this kind of report, seeing as they sell this as an enterprise service.

Mandiant has previously released this type of report regularly; for instance, they were the firm that disclosed the SolarWinds hack.

CameronDev , 2 months ago to Technology in Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm

What is worrying about Google being involved with this report? They have an internet security division, this is exactly their job?

dominiquec OP , 2 months ago

My point being that they deem this serious enough to release publicly themselves instead of an internal memory, and that this is about an active threat actor rather than a mere vulnerability.

mute , 2 months ago

Google has been trying to get into the security game for a while, especially after Microsoft parachuting to the top with Defender/Sentinel etc.

It’s good business to release threat intelligence that speaks to high-profile topics to garner credibility.

With that said, they revealed nothing new that we, security professionals (inc. gov agencies), didn’t already know for a long while.

CameronDev , 2 months ago

Cyber security companies report on APTs all the time, nothing unusual about that.

GigglyBobble , 8 months ago to Technology in Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps | Google Cloud Blog

I can't shake the feeling this is China testing the waters for cyber warfare...