How Google Tracks Hackers

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tracking hacking groups has become a booming business. Dozens of so-called “threat intelligence” companies keep tabs on them and sell subscriptions to feeds where they provide customers with up to date information on what the most advanced cyber criminals and government hackers are up to. Lots of these are small companies, but one of the best in the biz you've definitely heard of: It's Google. The internet giant has more than 1.5 billion active users on Gmail, more than 1 billion people who use Chrome, and more than 2 billion of their Android phones floating around in the world.

This week, Ben Makuch talks to Shane Huntley, the Director of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). TAG is essentially Google’s hacker hunting team: they’re the ones tasked with monitoring Google networks for criminal and government hacking groups.

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0:00.0	Tannen, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:09.0	It's a unit system.
0:13.0	I know this.
0:15.0	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells her everything.
0:19.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle one.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:25.8	Tracking hacking groups like APT-28, Charming Kitten, or Quasion Group has become a booming
0:31.5	business.
0:32.6	Dozens of so-called threat intelligence companies keep tabs in them and sell subscriptions
0:37.2	to feeds where they provide
0:38.3	customers with up-to-date information on what the most advanced cybercriminals and government
0:43.6	hackers are up to.
0:45.9	One of the companies with perhaps the best visibility and data, called telemetry and infosex
0:50.8	speak, is none other than Google.
0:53.6	The internet giant has more than 1.5 billion active users on Gmail, more than 1 billion people
0:59.4	who use Chrome, and more than 2 billion of their Android phones are floating around the world.
1:05.3	Today, we talk to the person whose job it is to find hackers in that giant, like really,
1:13.4	really, really giant haystack.
1:19.3	Shane Huntley is the director of Threat Analysis Group, also known as Tag at Google.
1:22.1	Tag is essentially Google's hacker hunting team.
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