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New Gmail Security Alert For 2.5 Billion Users As AI Hack Confirmed
Protecting your Gmail account is critical as this dangerous new AI-driven attack sets out to test even the most careful users. Here’s what you need to do to stay safe.
ForbesGoogle Confirms New Gmail Security Boost For 2.5 Billion UsersBy Davey Winder Garry Tan, the founder of venture capital firm and startup accelerator Y Combinator, has taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, to issue a warning about another phishing scam that he described as being “pretty elaborate” which also leverages AI so as to present itself as believable. GoogleIn the case of the scam that targeted Tan, the supposed Google support person claimed that the company had received a death certificate and a family member was attempting to recover his account. ForbesGoogle Announces New Gmail Security Move For MillionsBy Davey Winder It’s almost a certainty that the attacker would have continued to a point where the so-called recovery process would be initiated, in truth this would be a cloned login portal capturing user credentials and likely the use of some kind of session cookie stealing malware to bypass two-factor authentication if that was in place.
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