Security News > 2020 > October > Google Says No Significant Election Influence Campaigns Targeting Its Users
Google says its Threat Analysis Group hasn't observed any significant coordinated influence campaigns that are targeting United States voters on its platform.
Google also notes that users who were identified as being targeted in such attacks were alerted, and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was also informed of these attacks.
The Internet giant also noticed that the threat posed by APTs to the U.S. elections has gained attention, especially with government agencies warning of adversaries possibly targeting the election process, and that it has removed 14 Google accounts linked to Ukrainian Parliament member Andrii Derkach who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for influence attempts on the U.S. elections.
"To date, TAG has not identified any significant coordinated influence campaigns targeting, or attempting to influence, U.S. voters on our platforms," Google notes.
"Addressing state-sponsored DDoS attacks requires a coordinated response from the internet community, and we work with others to identify and dismantle infrastructure used to conduct attacks," Google notes.