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ForkLog 11 14.12.2020

Europeans report a widespread Google outage

On December 14, around 14:27 MSK, a widespread outage affected Google services.

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ForkLog 13 20.11.2020

Fake Uniswap app steals $20,000 from a user

A fake Uniswap app in the Google Play store is stealing cryptocurrency from users. One of them has already lost $20,000.

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ForkLog 19 19.10.2020

Google reveals details of a previously unknown large-scale DDoS attack

The Google Cloud team described a large-scale DDoS attack targeting Google's services in 2017. Its peak traffic reached 2.54 Tbps, making it one of the largest DDoS attacks on record.

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ForkLog 9 09.10.2020

Roskomnadzor seeks information on Google’s Global Cache servers. Banning them would hit YouTube

Russian telecom operators have received letters from Roskomnadzor demanding information on whether they are connected to Google's Global Cache servers. The letters' authenticity has been confirmed by several large providers.

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ForkLog 11 06.10.2020

Google Cloud named a candidate to be an EOS block producer; EOS rises about 14.6%.

Block.one said that Google Cloud has become a candidate to act as a block producer for EOS.

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ForkLog 22 06.08.2020

Malicious actors have created Uniswap copycat sites to steal cryptocurrency and are promoting them on Google

Several fake Uniswap copycat sites appeared online, through which attackers steal cryptocurrencies. The fraudulent sites are promoted via Google ads.

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Krzysztof Shpak 886 23.06.2020

Hackers Use Popular Web Analytics Tool to Steal Online Shoppers’ Payment Information

Threat actors are now targeting Google Analytics service to harvest data entered by users. As the victims are generally Europe and Americas-based online stores selling cosmetics, food products, digital equipment, and spare parts, the stolen information includes their shoppers’ credit card details.

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Google Chrome Extension With 32M Downloads Has Malicious Add-Ons that Steal Data, Report

Krzysztof Shpak 3807 19.06.2020

Google Chrome Extensions With 32M Downloads Have Malicious Add-Ons that Steal Data, Report

As of May 2020, Google’s Chrome Web Store has reportedly been hit with the most massive surveillance campaign so far, which managed to steal data from users around the world through over 32 million downloads of malicious extensions.

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Krzysztof Shpak 608 05.06.2020

Enlightened Despot: Is Google Fit to Tell Good from Evil?

For decades Google has been widely criticized for privacy breaches and turning its host of services into a perfect global surveillance mechanism. But it took a while until this global corporation owned up to the criticism, albeit silently.

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Krzysztof Shpak 865 27.05.2020

Latest Modification of ComRAT Trojan Targets Gmail Users to Steal Confidential Documents

Researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET have detected a modified version of ComRAT malware, which now targets Gmail users to steal confidential documents. In addition to misappropriation of documents, the trojan collects information about the network, Microsoft Windows configurations, and the Archive Directory groups or users.

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Krzysztof Shpak 510 20.05.2020

Google to Fight Online Ads That Use Built-In Crypto Mining Scripts

Tech giant Google has begun combating resource-heavy web ads, such as those that mine cryptocurrency, and is planning to launch a dedicated feature on the Chrome browser by the end of summer.

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Krzysztof Shpak 870 15.05.2020

Searching for Search Engine and Post-Google Dream

Numbers strongly suggest that for the last several years people have been doing a lot of googling and really not much of binging, yahooing, and even baiduing in comparison. When it comes to certain alternative solutions like DuckDuckGo, there’s even more ground to gain. And there are reasons to want these leftfield solutions gaining ground, […]

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