{"id":26000,"date":"2025-07-26T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:46:08","slug":"google-warns-this-email-means-your-gmail-is-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26000\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns This Email Means Your Gmail Is Under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gmail<\/p>\n

You do not want to get this email.<\/p>\n

dpa\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n

With all the cyber security attacks<\/a> compromising smartphones and PCs, it would be easy to conclude there\u2019s little you can do to stay safe. But the truth is very different. Most attacks are easily prevented with a few basic safeguards and some know-how. In reality, a number of simple changes can defend against most attacks.<\/p>\n

So it is with the FBI\u2019s two warnings this week. The first a resurgence of the Phantom Hacker attacks<\/a> which trick PC users into installing rogue apps. And the second a raft of fake Chrome installs and updates which provide initial access for ransomware<\/a>. If you just avoid installing linked apps in this way you will steer clear of those attacks.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the same with a new Amazon impersonation attack that has surged 5000%<\/a> in just two weeks. Don\u2019t click links in messages \u2014 even if they seem to come from Amazon. And now Gmail attack warnings<\/a> are turning up again on social media, which will likely frustrate Google, because their advice has been clear but is not yet landing with users.<\/p>\n

The latest Gmail warnings come courtesy of a refreshed EasyDMARC<\/a> article covering the \u201cno-reply\u201d attacks from earlier this year, hijacking \u201cno-reply@accounts.google.com\u201d to trick users into clicking links and giving up their Google account sign-in credentials.<\/p>\n

Here again the advice is very simple. It shouldn\u2019t matter whether an email appears to come from Google. If it links to a sign-in page, it\u2019s an attack. Period. And that means any email that seems to come from Google but has a sign-in link must be deleted.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes,\u201d Google warns, \u201chackers will copy Google\u2019s \u2018Suspicious sign-in prevented\u2019 emails and other official Google emails to try to steal someone\u2019s account information.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the company tells all account holders<\/a> that \u201cGoogle emails will never take you to a sign-in page. Authentic emails sent from Google to your Google Account will never ask you to sign in again to the account they were sent to.\u201d It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, Google will never \u201cask you to provide your password or other sensitive information by email or through a link, call you and ask for any forms of identification, including verification codes, send you a text message directing you to a sign-in page, or send a message via text or email asking you to forward a verification code.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that in mind, you should not fall victim to these Google impersonation attacks, and if you stick to the basic rules on installs, links and attachments, then you\u2019ll likely stay safe from most of the other ones as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You do not want to get this email. dpa\/picture alliance via Getty Images With all the cyber security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,7244,20980,20979,20983,20982,20981,20978,61],"class_list":["post-26000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gmail-attack","tag-gmail-new-account","tag-gmail-new-address","tag-gmail-passkey","tag-gmail-security","tag-gmail-upgrade-account","tag-gmail-warning","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}