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Google: We caught a Russian state hacker crew uploading badness to the Play Store

CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge

've tracked IPs to many locations in Russia

The benefit in running my own proper firewall is that I can block traffic from country IP ranges (currently blocking Russia, China, N. Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran). Thinking about blocking Brazil because I'm seeing an increasing number of attacks from there.

Blocking those more than halves the probes hitting the firewall and triggering the intrustion dection system.

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