The company has revealed that a government-sponsored hacking group launched the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against Google in 2017.
The
attack lasted for more than six months and reached the level of T... TBPS in
traffic.
A
report by Google's threatening analytics group said the attack came from China,
as it originated with four Chinese Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Google's
Shane Huntley wrote in a blog post, "Although government-sponsored threat
groups have been less likely to see phishing attacks or hacking campaigns by
threat groups, we've seen big players on a larger scale. “They increase their
ability to launch attacks."
The
company says the attack targeted thousands of Google IPs but had no effect.
Google
will not disclose which properties were targeted by hackers.
"The
attacker used 167 MPPs (millions of packets per second) to forge 180,000
exposed CLDAP, DNS, and SMTP servers across multiple networks, which we’ll have
a great response later, "wrote Damien Menscher, a trusted security
engineer at Google.
Earlier,
the biggest attack was launched’ against Amazon, which peaked at 2.3 Tbps in
mid-February this year.
Despite
the origin of the largest attack, China is responsible for only 12% of
state-sponsored attacks.
Microsoft
says Russian activity accounts for 52% of all attacks between July 2019 and
June 2020.
It
is followed’ by Iran, which monitors attacks by 25 percent.
Unlike
attacks on Google, these attacks are aimed’ at influencing government policy
through subtle means rather than directly targeting infrastructure.
This
includes spare phishing through Microsoft Word documents, and unique
credentials have been used’ to copy e-mails from the American fast-food chain
about the Coronavirus.
Google
had earlier found evidence of a state-sponsored campaign targeting US
government officials offering fast food.
It
was one of 18 million attempted scandal messages a day about Covid 19, as the
Coronavirus has been used’ as a cover for scam efforts.
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