Security News > 2021 > November > Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked
Google's Cybersecurity Action Team has released its first "Threat horizon" report on the scary things it's found on the internet.
The Team's first report offers six nuggets of intelligence, and The Register believes none will surprise readers.
Thanks for the intelligence from 2010, Google - spear phishing is not new!
Google did offer a more novel phishing finding, in the news that Russia's Fancy Bear crime gang has tried to reuse code it deployed in an attack on Yahoo! mail to attack Gmail.
Another flash of insight from the report advises that analysis of 50 recently hijacked Google Cloud instances revealed 86 per cent were put to work mining cryptocurrency.
The Register will leave it to you, dear reader, to determine whether or not the document meets Google's aim of delivering "The world's best security advice".
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