{"id":141533,"date":"2022-07-02T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/google-blocked-dozens-of-domains-used-by-hack-for-hire-groups"},"modified":"2022-07-02T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T05:03:22","slug":"google-blocked-dozens-of-domains-used-by-hack-for-hire-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/google-blocked-dozens-of-domains-used-by-hack-for-hire-groups","title":{"rendered":"Google blocked dozens of domains used by hack-for-hire groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-blocked-dozens-of-domains-used-by-hack-for-hire-groups2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has blocked dozens of malicious domains and websites used by hack-for-hire groups in attacks targeting high-risk targets worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike commercial surveillance vendors whose tools are deployed in attacks by clients, hack-for-hire operators are directly involved in attacks and are usually employed by a firm offering such services. In some cases, they can also be \u201cfreelance\u201d threat actors.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re hired for their hacking skills by clients who lack them or who want to conceal their identity if the attacks are detected and investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has blocked dozens of malicious domains and websites used by hack-for-hire groups in attacks targeting high-risk targets worldwide. Unlike commercial surveillance vendors whose tools are deployed in attacks by clients, hack-for-hire operators are directly involved in attacks and are usually employed by a firm offering such services. In some cases, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}