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Project Zero, Google's cybersecurity team, announced on its blog on March 18 that it had prevented a hacking campaign in October 2020.
The computer attack, which aimed to find loopholes to infect them later, targeted "a handful of websites", then explained the experts.
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, however, revealed twelve days later that the operation described by Google was far from malicious.
The halted attack had in fact been launched by hackers working on behalf of a government allied with the United States.
The hackers were in fact benevolent and aimed to stop the actions of cyber terrorists.
They had been working on this operation for nine months when Project Zero specialists interrupted them.
"Increase security"
Even if they had in the past succeeded in countering the plans of hackers employed by North Korea, China or Russia, this action earned them a shower of criticism.
Some have wondered why Google had decided to specify the details of this operation, when they had obviously been able to identify its sponsors.
"We believe that sharing our work improves defense strategies and increases the security of all," said the representative of the Californian giant.
[…] Project Zero aims to […] advance the understanding of new security vulnerabilities and the techniques exploiting them ”.
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