Providing cybersecurity assistance
The Ukrainian government is under near-constant digital attack. That’s why shortly after the invasion, we expanded eligibility for Project Shield, our free protection against DDoS attacks, so that Ukrainian government websites and embassies worldwide could stay online and continue to offer their crucial services. Since then, we’ve continued to implement protections for users and track and disrupt cyber threats.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been tracking threat actors, both before and during the war, and sharing their findings publicly and with law enforcement. TAG’s findings have shown that government-backed actors from Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, and North Korea have been targeting Ukrainian and Eastern European government and defense officials, military organizations, politicians, NGOs, and journalists, while financially motivated bad actors have also used the war as a lure for malicious campaigns.
Mandiant, a part of Google Cloud, is also providing direct assistance to Ukrainian government entities under the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative — including compromise assessments, incident response services, shared cyber threat intelligence, and their Ukraine Crisis Resource Center — helping the Ukrainian government detect, mitigate, and defend against cyber attacks.