CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts

This is an interesting one. I've seen Censys bots hit all my stuff hundreds of thousands of times and yet for some reason I had no idea that belonged to Google. Makes sense, I just never connected the two. I also use their interface to VT for old browsers [1] all the time. Intriguing.

[1] - https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/

Re: CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts

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Post by palebluedot » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

LinuxBender wrote: post #4

This is an interesting one. I've seen Censys bots hit all my stuff hundreds of thousands of times and yet for some reason I had no idea that belonged to Google. Makes sense, I just never connected the two. I also use their interface to VT for old browsers [1] all the time. Intriguing. [1] - https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/

Censys is not part of Google, that article is referencing two different companies

Re: CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts

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Post by LinuxBender » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 1:43 PM UTC

palebluedot wrote: post #5

LinuxBender wrote: post #4

This is an interesting one. I've seen Censys bots hit all my stuff hundreds of thousands of times and yet for some reason I had no idea that belonged to Google. Makes sense, I just never connected the two. I also use their interface to VT for old browsers [1] all the time. Intriguing. [1] - https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/

Censys is not part of Google, that article is referencing two different companies

Google have a lot of different companies. It sounds like this is one of them. I know a journalist that could look into it.