====== Google Threat Analysis Group ======

[[Google]]'s **Threat Analysis Group (TAG)** is an in-house counterintelligence task group. Led by [[Shane Huntley]], the group is self-described as "a specialized team of security experts that works to identify, report, and stop government-backed phishing and hacking against Google and the people who use [their] products.”((Huntley, S. (2020, April 22). //Findings on COVID-19 and online security threats.// Google. http://archive.today/2021.05.08-070950/https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/findings-covid-19-and-online-security-threats/))

===== History =====

In the summer of 2018, TAG squashed "an allegedly [[iran|Iranian]]-backed [[disinformation]] campaign by pulling dozens of [[YouTube]] channels that were using fake accounts to push misleading political stories primarily about the [[Middle East]]."((McMillan, R. (2019, January 23). //Inside Google’s Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers.// Wall Street Journal. http://archive.today/2020.01.01-143527/https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-googles-team-battling-hackers-11548264655))

===== Organization =====

==== Personnel ====

TAG is "staffed partly by former government agents."((McMillan, R. (2019, January 23). //Inside Google’s Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers.// Wall Street Journal. http://archive.today/2020.01.01-143527/https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-googles-team-battling-hackers-11548264655))