Re: Your account could be at risk of state-sponsored attacks

[Peter Dawson <slash.pd () gmail com>]

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 <nick.boyce () gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Aftermath <aftermath.thegreat () gmail com>
> 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
> --
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>
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