Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.
Losing access to your email account is a frightening thing to experience if, like many of us, it’s part of our online work and pleasure ecosystem. Google says there are more than 2.5 billion Gmail accounts, so it’s not surprising that threat actors treat getting access to them as a priority, regardless of the ultimate attack campaign payload.
It took less than 10 seconds for the email security bots to engage and less than five minutes for the floodgates to have been well and truly opened. While many of these ended up in the “including those that may contain offensive content” category that you have to click through to show, others were ignored and displayed in the thread. Most follow the same template response: The same thing happened to me/my friend/someone I know — contact someone@somewhere and they will help get your account back.
A number of these bots, all using what appear at first glance to be genuine X user accounts, will point to the same user who can help. The truth of the matter is that none, absolutely zero, of them will help you.
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