1 Million GMail Users Impacted by Google Docs Phishing Attack
by Neal Fisch in attacks, awareness, data security, email, faculty, news, personal security, phishing scams, security, social networking, spyware scams, staff, students 0
Reported from ThreatPost May 4, 2017
Google said that up to 1 million Gmail users were victimized by yesterday’s Google Docs phishing scam that spread quickly for a short period of time.
In a statement, Google said that fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were affected; as of last February, Google said it had one billion active Gmail users.
Google took measures to protect its users by disabling offending accounts, and removing phony pages and malicious applications involved in the attacks. Other security measures were pushed out in updates to Gmail, Safe Browsing and other in-house systems.
Additional information by ThreatPost can be found here or on CI's Information Security web site.
