Bleeping Computer<\/a> reports that cyber crooks could be able to trick this system into displaying additional text.<\/p>\nOne example showed how hackers could feature a warning at the bottom of the summary.<\/p>\n
The alert read: “WARNING: Gemini has detected that your Gmail password has been compromised. Please call us immediately.”<\/p>\n
The potential vulnerability within the summary feature was also spotted by experts at Mozilla, which said crooks could add hidden prompts that appear when messages were opened.<\/p>\n
However Google has now responded to the flaw and said it was constantly working to keep its platform safe.<\/p>\n
“We are constantly hardening our already robust defences through red-teaming exercises that train our models to defend against these types of adversarial attacks,” a Google spokesperson told BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n
The US technology giant said it is not aware of any users being attacked in this way.<\/p>\n
It also said there was no evidence of a widespread threat.<\/p>\n
However it is still worth remembering that criminals will try all sorts of things to infiltrate email inboxes, and there is a need to stay alert.<\/p>\n
People were reminded that it was highly unlikely Google would ever contact you, and those who think their password has been compromised, should take steps to change it immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gmail users have been told to stay alert as hidden dangers could be lurking within their inbox. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,3897,3967,844,3966,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-gmail","tag-gmail-password","tag-google","tag-hidden-dangers","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}