Waymo (US)
Threat actors publicly named in connection with targeting Waymo. Sorted by IDF score (rarity-weighted CVE attribution) with extraction confidence as tiebreaker. Each row's evidence is a verbatim quote from the source attribution.
7 attributed actor(s) ·
Category mix: competitor=6, insider=1 ·
Attacker regions: APAC=3, US=3, —=1
| Actor | Category | Sponsor | Confidence | Evidence | CVEs | IDF | Last active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uber Technologies (Waymo IP-theft beneficiary) (COMP-UBER) | competitor | 🇺🇸 US | 1.00 | Named beneficiary in Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies (2017-2018). | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Waymo v. Uber (civil trade-secret, US) (COMP-WAYMO-UBER-CIVIL-2017) | competitor | 🇺🇸 US | 1.00 | filed February 2017 by Waymo against Uber and Otto | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Anthony Levandowski (INS-LEVANDOWSKI-2017) | insider | 🇺🇸 US | 0.95 | downloaded ~14,000 proprietary files from Waymo | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Baidu Apollo (Waymo / Tesla alleged engineer beneficiary) (COMP-BAIDU-APOLLO) | competitor | 🇨🇳 CN | 0.90 | civil claims over Waymo, Tesla and Apple Project Titan engineers joining Baidu's Apollo unit | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Pony.ai (alleged Waymo / Apple engineer beneficiary) (COMP-PONY-AI) | competitor | 🇨🇳 CN | 0.85 | civil disputes over Waymo, Cruise and Apple engineers joining Pony | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| WeRide (alleged Apple / Waymo engineer beneficiary) (COMP-WERIDE) | competitor | 🇨🇳 CN | 0.85 | Waymo defections | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Industrial espionage (competitor) | competitor | — | — | Aggregated trade-secret / talent-poaching cases — see the industrial-espionage record. | — | — | — |
Sibling victims
Other named victims whose attacker circle overlaps with this one — defenders use this to find sectoral or geographic cohorts that face the same actors.
- Apple — 4 shared actor(s)
- Tesla — 2 shared actor(s)
- Cruise — 2 shared actor(s)
- New Relic — 1 shared actor(s)
- Dynatrace — 1 shared actor(s)
- Shanghai-VW — 1 shared actor(s)
- SAIC-GM — 1 shared actor(s)
- Nestlé — 1 shared actor(s)
- Procter & Gamble — 1 shared actor(s)
- BMC — 1 shared actor(s)
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