Google has directly warned more than 12,000 users across 149 countries that they have been targeted by government-backed hackers. The technology giant says it regularly warns targeted users about state-sponsored phishing attempts. Google says that the U.S. remains the most-targeted nation, drawing thousands of instances of state-backed attack attempts. Attackers’ tactics included trojanizing legitimate apps to work as malware and uploading these apps to Google’s Play Store, using attacker-controlled developer accounts.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/google-government-backed-hackers-targeted-12000-users-a-13458