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Royal Hansen

@royalhansen

Vice President, Engineering, Google - Privacy, Safety, Security:
Posts on InfoSec, Privacy, Data, AI, Counter Abuse and random stuff from life in CA; Tweets=own
Bay Area Joined February 2009
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Royal Hansen @royalhansen
"Operations like this raise the cost for criminals and show that the infrastructure they rely on isn't out of reach," said @charley_snyder_ , Head of Disruption Operations at @Google Threat Intelligence Group.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
www.prnewswire.com Industry Takedown of Botnet Hidden in More Than 1.3 Million TV Set-Top Boxes across 200 Countries /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a group of private and public sector partners announced a coordinated takedown of X.CPE, a global botnet hidden in more than 1.3 million...
Royal Hansen @royalhansen
"Cybercriminals have turned reselling cloud access to LLMs into a lucrative business model, with some victims paying as much as $1 million in resource consumption before access was revoked."
darkreading.com/cloud-security…
www.darkreading.com LLMjacking Emerges as Thriving Cybercriminal Enterprise Threat actors have turned reselling cloud access to LLMs into a lucrative business model, with some victims paying $1 million in resource consumption.
Royal Hansen @royalhansen
"fraudulent charges from resource consumption can exceed $100K/day, according to a Monday report by @Google's @Mandiant incident responders, who saw cumulative charges at some organizations hit $1M before the victim companies revoked intruders' access."
theregister.com/security/2026/…
www.theregister.com Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges Don't let the LLMjackers hit you