[MCN] Beware, gmail users

[Lance Olsen]

A Massive Google Docs Phish Might Have Stolen A Load Of Gmail Accounts - UPDATED <https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/>
Forbes	 - ‎3 hours ago‎	 
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A lot of people are getting some suspicious looking emails in their Gmail today. The malicious messages are coming from trusted contacts, asking them to open a Google Doc.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/#56ab0b7842a1 <https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/#56ab0b7842a1>

Massive phishing attack targets millions of Gmail users <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html>
CNBC-6 hours ago
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html>

An unusually sophisticated identity phishing campaign appeared to target Google's roughly 1 billion Gmail users worldwide, seeking to gain control of their entire email histories and spread itself to all of their contacts, Google confirmed Wednesday.

[If you clicked the link, here's what to do next <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/what-to-do-if-you-opened-the-google-doc-phishing-email.html>.]

The worm — which arrived in users' inboxes posing as an email from a trusted contact — asked users to check out an attached "Google Docs," or GDocs, file. Clicking on the link took them to a real Google security page, where users were asked to give permission for the fake app, posing as GDocs, to manage users' email account.

To make matters worse, the worm also sent itself out to all of the affected users' contacts — Gmail or otherwise — reproducing itself hundreds of times any time a single user fell for it.


Up to 1 Million Gmail Users Affected in Massive Phishing Attack <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/>
The Atlantic-1 hour ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/ <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/>

Google gives Android Gmail users new shady link warnings amid ... <http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gives-android-gmail-users-new-shady-link-warnings-amid-fake-docs-attack/>
ZDNet-1 hour ago

Phishing scam targets GMail users <http://www.kwch.com/content/news/GMail-appears-to-have-been-hacked-421195873.html>
KWCH-10 hours ago
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"A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, 
where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no 
easy way to back out of or to avoid."

John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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“Booms have consequences.”

Grant, James. Money of the Mind : Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1992

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“It is no coincidence that the deepest and most protracted recessions in recent decades have taken hold in countries that experienced booms …” 

The Economist, July, 2001 

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