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Chinese hackers attempted phishing on emails affiliated with US government – Planet Storyline

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All phishing emails were successfully marked as spam and filtered by Gmail in February. Image: Adobe Must-read security coverage Russian hackers are not the only set of malicious actors the United States needs to be aware of from a cybersecurity perspective. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), multiple Gmail users affiliated with the U.S. government were alerted to an attempted phishing attack by a Chinese-backed hacking group noted as APT31 in February. Fortunately for government officials, the attempted attack was unsuccessful as all of the emails containing phishing links were automatically marked as spam and filtered by Gmail. “Today,…

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