Google’s threat analysis group, which counters targeted and government-backed hacking against the company and its users, sent account holders almost 40,000 warnings in 2019, with government officials, journalists, dissidents, and geopolitical rivals being the most targeted, team members said. The number of warnings declined almost 25 percent from 2018, in part because of new protections designed to curb cyberattacks on Google properties.
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