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New Gmail Security Alert for 2.5B 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.
The need to confirm an account recovery, or a password reset, is a notorious phishing attack methodology intended to drive the user to a fake login portal where they need to enter their credentials to report the request as not initiated by them. Here’s What To DoBy Davey Winder Unsurprisingly, then, Mitrovic wasn’t falling for this and ignored the notification that appeared to originate from the U.S. and a missed phone call, pertaining to be from Google in Sydney, Australia, some 40 minutes later. 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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