Hackers are gaining access to Gmail accounts using this new attack — act now.
accidental spamming. This means finally ridding yourself of the embarrassing high school or college address you are still stuck with decades later. It also means a fresh start for inboxes that have become magnets for spam and scams, despite those Google filters.
, hiding behind the news, tricking users into clicking links they shouldn’t. The attacks come via emails pretending to be from Google, inviting users to click a link to change their @gmail address. Emails crafted by AI to be indistinguishable from the real thing.warns that “scam emails are currently being sent that purportedly originate from Google,” and that “appear particularly credible because they’re sent via Google’s own systems and display real Google addresses, such as 'no-reply@accounts.google.com’ as the sender.”If you fall for one of these scams and give away your security credentials, then you are giving the attackers access to your Gmail and other Google accounts, as well as any third-party accounts that rely on your Google credentials for sign-in. You do not want to lose your account to hackers this way, and face the pain of getting it back.also warns that “what makes this particularly insidious is that the scammers are using the 'sites.google.com’ domain, which is a legitimate Google service for user-generated websites — and is therefore not blocked by many spam filters. These fake sites are made to imitate genuine Google support pages."None of these tactics are now — but the lure is clearly new. You must not click a link in any email or message, however realistic or personalized that might be, that takes you to a Google or Gmail sign-in page. The only way to change your address is via your account settings, accessed via your app or the website you usually log into.. That way, even if you are duped by a fake sign-in link, you won’t actually give away your credentials and lose your account and all the invaluable, personal data it contains.
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