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Beware of new Gmail phishing scam
9 years ago
Full article here:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/01.....hing-scam.html
The ruse aims to steal usernames and passwords for Gmail and other services, and "is being used right now with a high success rate," according to Mark Maunder, CEO of WordPress security plugin Wordfence, who described the campaign in detail. Like other phishing attacks, this one starts with an email. Instead of a random person, the email may appear to have been sent by someone you know, and it may include an image of an attachment you recognize from the sender.
"You click on the image, expecting Gmail to give you a preview of the attachment. Instead, a new tab opens up and you are prompted by Gmail to sign in again. You glance at the location bar and you see accounts.google.com in there," Maunder wrote.
Once you sign in, the attackers have full access to your account.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/01.....hing-scam.html
The ruse aims to steal usernames and passwords for Gmail and other services, and "is being used right now with a high success rate," according to Mark Maunder, CEO of WordPress security plugin Wordfence, who described the campaign in detail. Like other phishing attacks, this one starts with an email. Instead of a random person, the email may appear to have been sent by someone you know, and it may include an image of an attachment you recognize from the sender.
"You click on the image, expecting Gmail to give you a preview of the attachment. Instead, a new tab opens up and you are prompted by Gmail to sign in again. You glance at the location bar and you see accounts.google.com in there," Maunder wrote.
Once you sign in, the attackers have full access to your account.
While most of the people I know on FA are tech-savvy enough to recognize malicious emails, I'm sure there are some who warnings like this will be of valuable help for.
it is scary though because it would give someone access to ALL of my accounts and my parents bank accounts because i use amazon and all the information is saved into the account.
I would literally cry...
But I do agree that it would totally suck if all of the information I have in my emails was suddenly exposed to someone with malicious intent.