Be careful, everyone: There’s a dangerous phishing attack guised as a Google Doc that might have made it to your inbox.
According to the BBC, however, Google put a stop to the phishing email that landed in about a million users’ inboxes.
In case you were out of the loop, here’s what happened: People received a trustworthy-looking email containing a Google Doc. If people clicked a link and followed instructions to look at it, they set themselves up for possible hacking.
Google, to its credit, said it handled the issue in “approximately one hour” by “removing fake pages and applications.”
(1 of 3) Official Google Statement on Phishing Email: We have taken action to protect users against an email impersonating Google Docs…
— Google Docs (@googledocs) May 3, 2017
(2 of 3) & have disabled offending accounts. We’ve removed the fake pages, pushed updates through Safe Browsing, and our abuse team…
— Google Docs (@googledocs) May 3, 2017
(3 of 3) is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again. We encourage users to report phishing emails in Gmail.
— Google Docs (@googledocs) May 3, 2017
It’s always a good idea to make sure you know what you’re looking at in your inbox. If you don’t know who is sending you an attachment, there’s a good reason to be suspicious.
