Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.
Update, Oct. 12, 2024: This story, originally published Oct. 11, includes details of a new anti-scam alliance initiative from Google to help users fight fraudsters.—but hackers using AI-driven attacks are also evolving. According to Google’s own figures, there are currently more than 2.5 billion users of the Gmail service. No wonder, then, that it is such a target for hackers and scammers. Here’s what you need to know.
“He asks if I’m traveling,” Mitrovic said, “when I said no, he asks if I logged in from Germany, to which I reply no.” All of this to engender trust in the caller and fear in the recipient. This is when things turned dark fast and really rather clever in the overall scheme of phishing things. The so-called Google support person informed Mitrovic that an attacker had accessed his Gmail account for the past 7 days, and had already downloaded account data.
Mitrovic did the right thing, or at least the next best thing to hanging up, and asked the supposed support guy to send an email confirmation—an email which arrived soon after, from a Google domain and looking for all intents and purposes genuine. AT this point he noticed the to field contained a cleverly disguised address that wasn’t actually a Google domain but could, once again, easily fool those not of a technical bent.
Amanda Storey, senior director of trust and safety at Google said that the collaboration “leverages the strengths of each partner.” With GASA having an extensive existing network of interested stakeholders and the DNS Research Foundation a data platform with more than 40 million existing signals, “GSE aims to improve the exchange of abuse signals, enabling faster identification and disruption of fraudulent activities across various sectors, platforms and services.
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