this become news this am. but its been noted quite some time back ...its like #whattookthemsolong to make it pub
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/google-warns-new-state-sponsored-cyberattack-targets/ On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Aftermath <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > In the last two weeks some of my cyber friends have been getting this > > message in their gmail. > > > > > http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=2591015 > [...] > > Has anyone else gotten this message from Google in the last 3 days? > > Mine was Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:34:31 -0700 > > Nope - no such messages received at this Gmail address - I also looked > in the Spam folder back as far as 25th.Sept .. none there either. > > Nor have I received any emails with suspicious attachments at this > address .... though I'm bombarded by them at various other non-Google > addresses. Googlemail seems to have pretty good filtering of > mainstream malware and spam, so I find your story a little puzzling. > > NB: the Googlemail support page the link points to says you should > have been directed there by a message "above your inbox", *not* in the > body of an actual email. > > As the support page says, they also use other indicators to decide you > may be being targeted, such as "suspicious login attempts". > > Maybe your cyber-friend-group is resident in a particularly targeted > geographical region and Google knows it .... or maybe Google *has* > successfully detected _some_ malware on its way to you, and noticed > that the malware is sufficiently mutable in character (polymorphic) > that other variants may have made it through undetected. > > Nick > -- > Q: How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in > a lightbulb? > A: Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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