인터넷 워 게임 시작되나? VIDEO: Russia and China's 'attack on Google': Virtual wargame 'experiment' hits search giant..
Russia and China's 'attack on Google': Virtual wargame 'experiment' hits search giant with 'worst ever' internet hijack that intercepted search, cloud and business services
An internet traffic diversion disrupted Google services and re-routed its data
Major internet providers in China and Russia intercepted data from Google users
Attack may prelude more wide-scale attacks from the nations involved in future
Interruptions lasted for nearly 1.5 hours until 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST)
Google said it had no reason to believe the traffic hijacking was malicious
인터넷 워 게임 시작되나? 구글, 러시아 중국 등에 의해 역사상 최악 인터넷 해킹 당해 구글이 회사 역사상 최악의 인터넷 해킹을 당했다고 보안 전문가들은 말했다. 이 해킹은 GMT 오후 10시 30분까지 거의 1.5시간 동안 지속됐다 사용자의 Google 검색, 클라우드 호스팅 서비스 및 G Suite로 알려진 기업을 위한 협업 툴 번들의 정보가 모두 영향을 받았다. 전 세계 사용자의 데이터가 주요 국영 통신사가 운영하는 데이터를 포함하여 나이지리아, 중국 및 러시아의 서버에 의해 가로채졌다. 보안 전문가들은 이 해킹이 '전쟁 실험'이라고 주장했는데, 이는 이 해킹이 앞으로 더 많은 국가 등에 더 광범위한 공격을 할 수 있다는 의미를 가지고 있다 아래 이미지 설명: 이미지는 미국에서 Google 서비스의 운영 중단 상황을 보여주고 있으며 거의 1.5시간 동안 중단이 지속되었다. 네트워크 서비스 회사들은 GMT 오후 10시 30분경에 끝이 났다고 말했다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Cheol Hwang, conpaper editor, curator |
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By HARRY PETTIT and TIM COLLINS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:06 GMT, 13 November 2018 | UPDATED: 11:43 GMT, 14 November 2018
Google has been hit by the 'worst ever' internet hijack in the company's history, security experts say.
Information from users' Google searches, cloud-hosting services and the company's bundle of collaboration tools for businesses - known as G Suite - were all affected.
Data belonging to users across the globe was intercepted by servers in Nigeria, China and Russia - including those run by major state-owned telecoms providers.
Security experts suggested the hack was a 'wargame experiment' - meaning it may prelude similar, more wide-scale attacks from the nations involved in future.
Google downplayed Monday's incident, however, saying it did not believe it was malicious, but failed to allay fears that the personal data of millions of users had been compromised.
The company is under increasing pressure to protect users after a string of high-profile data leaks, including last month's breach of its Google+ social network, which exposed the private information of an estimated 500,000 people.
This image shows an outage map of Google service in the US. Interruptions lasted for nearly one and a half
hours and ended about 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST), network service companies said
The type of traffic misdirection employed in the latest incident, known as border gateway protocol (BGP) hijacking, can knock essential services offline and facilitate espionage and financial theft.
It can result either from misconfiguration - human error, essentially - or from malicious action.
In two recent cases, traffic rerouting has hit financial sites, potentially exposing people's private data to malicious hackers.
In April 2017, a state-owned Russian Telecoms firm hijacked the traffic of MasterCard and Visa, allowing them enumerate who was initiating connections.
This past April, another hijacking enabled hackers to steal $152,000-worth (£118,000) of the cryptocurrency Ether from users of the website EtherWallet.com.
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