This Gmail attack bypasses Google’s own security checks.
Protecting your accounts and data is getting harder and more complex, despite the best efforts of security defenders. In the same week that we have seen details of Microsoft introducing stricthave struck, so both these stories merge as Google confirms that Gmail users are under attack from hackers bypassing its own email authentication protections and leveraging trust in Google infrastructure to launch a dangerous and costly threat. Here’s what you need to know and do.
Wouldn’t it be great if account security were straightforward and easy to accomplish? When you get an email from Google, a security alert no less, that passes Google’s own email authentication protections, you’d think it was trustworthy, right? Wrong, very wrong indeed, at least for now.on the X social media platform, first alerted us to the threat that exploits trust in Google’s own protections and platforms to execute a sophisticated hack attack.
This legitimacy is continued if you were to follow the link to the Google support page, a nefarious clone, of course, but one that is hosted on sites.google.com. Get as far as wanting to look at the documentation or upload a protest and, once again, the Google account credentials page is a perfect clone and hosted at sites.google.com which adds the trust of the google.com domain. You’d have to be pretty clued up to notice it wasn’t the genuine accounts.google.
If you fall into the trap, you can wave access to your Google account goodbye, and the hackers will say hello to your Gmail account and all the data that it contains.The good news is that Google has said that it is rolling out protections to counter the specific attacks from the threat actor concerned. “These protections will soon be fully deployed,” a spokesperson said, “which will shut down this avenue for abuse.
Moving forward, Gmail users should still be alert to the danger of genuine-looking emails and alerts that purport to be from legitimate sources, even if that source is Google itself.
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