Google Google has announced its ‘Project Shield’, its free protection against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, entitlement to Ukrainian government websites, embassies and other governments around the world to stay online, protect yourself and continue to offer its important has expanded. Services.
‘Project Shield’ allows Google to absorb bad traffic in a DDoS attack and act as a “shield” for websites, allowing them to continue operating and defend against these attacks.
“To date, more than 150 websites in Ukraine, including many news organizations, are using the service. We encourage all eligible organizations to register for Project Shield so that our systems can prevent these attacks and protect the websites. to help keep you online.”
Over the past 12 months, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has issued hundreds of government-backed attacks to Ukrainian users, alerting them that they have been the target of government-backed hacking, largely originating from Russia. .
“Over the past two weeks, TAG has observed the activity of several threat actors we regularly monitor and are known to law enforcement,” the company said in a statement late Monday, including FancyBear and Ghostwriter. “
This activity ranges from espionage to phishing campaigns.
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‘Mustang Panda’ or ‘Temp.hex’, a China-based threat actor, targeted European entities with greed related to the Ukrainian invasion.
Google said targeting European organizations represents a change from the Mustang Panda’s regularly seen Southeast Asian targets.
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“We continue to see DDoS efforts against a number of sites in Ukraine, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as services such as LiveUAMap that are designed to help people find information,” informed Google .
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