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.
Cybersecurity awareness month has now been and gone, but hopefully, the lessons learned during October will remain with users for some time. One of those cybersecurity awareness lessons is never to trust links you see in your email, as they could easily be malicious and part of a.
The problem with that advice, while still highly recommended, is that it’s not bulletproof. OK, the shocking cybersecurity truth is that no defensive measures are 100% guaranteed to work, there are always exceptions and it’s these that cyber criminals look to exploit to their benefit. And so it is with link hovering.FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook Users Of $100 Government Emergency Data Email Hackthat all was not well in the link hovering malicious link protection world.
After spoofing the link text to read as if it’s the genuine login page or site the user is expecting, the cyber criminals in this scenario then spoof the link hovering text as well. This isn’t difficult to do as all it takes is some simple HTML, no Javascript coding required, to edit the mouseover text label.
Desktop clients and mobile apps don’t appear to suffer from this lapse in security, so I’d heartily suggest you use them instead of your web browser to read your Gmail if you are concerned about this attack methodology. One member of the cybersecurity community on X told me that they had recently came across the exact same tactic in a phishing email and it is a growing threat vector.
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