Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Phishing Attacks on Google Accounts


The hackers are phishing on gmail accounts to get the users login credentials, they are using something called data URL.

When you login into your gmail account and if you click on a phishing mail that look like a genuine and convincing to you to click on, then you will be redirected to another gmail login page which looks exactly as the legitimate gmail login page, usually you enter your login credentials and once you enter they will be sent to the hacker. The hackers then login to your account and send a phishing mail to all of your contacts which contains the attachment and any screenshot which you sent to someone previously. As the received person trusts you and opens the mail the something happens to them that what happened to your account and this continues, more like a chain process.


The phishing site URL looks unusual and will be a long string, check the URL before entering login credentials and also activate two factor authentications in your account.

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