Google confirms Gmail attacks – don’t ignore FBI warning

There is no doubt that this year will bring serious new threats fueled by the attacks driven by him, which will become increasingly difficult to discover and increasingly harmful. But sometimes, as smart as an attack may seem, it’s simple folly to stop. And it has never been critical to adhere to the bases and not be removed from pious tactics.

So it’s with a new warning from Google, after confirming the latest “he run” attack on his account holders – about which you can read Gmail. The attack was scary smart, so far beyond the question, but should have stopped immediately.

The target victim was a very technology engineer who described it as “the most sophisticated phishing attack I have ever seen.” I covered the attack but it was caught for the first time registryReporting that “Google says it is now protection against a sophisticated account of receiving the Account documented by a programmer last week.”

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The attack began with a call from Google support team, warning that someone had tried to enter the victim’s account overseas. The number seemed legal and was supported by an email from a Google domain. She continued for a while, and only broke down when the fake chief of the fraud caller entered the line and crashed.

But Google wants to point out that it should have never reached so far; The company asked me to “please repeat your readers that Google will not call you to reset your password or problem account problems.”

Google has suspended that Scammer’s account would be, “which abused an unproven account of the workspace to send these cheating emails”, and says it is “hardening our protection against abusers using G references .Co in the registration to further protect users. ” This means the attackers imitate Google fields. But again at the bases again – it should have never happened.

Google says “we have not seen evidence that this is a large -scale tactic”, which means the scary sophistication of this attack in particular. It was complex and very intended. But deceit of fraudulent support calls IS widespread. And it is not only supportive calls, the same tactics are employed by fraudulent banking staff, cryptic exchange staff and even police officers.

But this is not well understood – that Google or Apple or Meta or any support deck of the other technology company won’t call you out of blue. And no financial institution will suddenly call you to move money or change account details while they are on the phone. Like no police officer will ever call to request payments to avoid arrest.

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No criticism of the engineer almost deceived by this latest “sophisticated” Phishing attack, it is very easy for fraudsters to set up fraud to disrupt the numbers and addresses of the email. And he makes everything worse. The matter is that almost all users still do not realize that a technology support team will never call. That fear of a compromise or device issue and a false sense of emergency is often enough to give a user to become a victim.

The FBI has responded to the last wave of bank fraud calls with a repeated warning to never receive such calls that banks will never place. And CBP and numerous local law enforcement agencies have done the same. I welcome the same clarity from Google, but it should be money and center on their support pages and apps and for everyone else.

The warning of the FBI blanket is clear. “Legal customer, security or support technology companies will not start unwanted contact with individuals.” You will never be called out of blue and you should never make such calls when they come.

Sometimes, making simple nonsense really is enough to keep you safe.