More than one billion users of Google's Gmail and Calendar applications are being warned about a newly discovered security threat. Here's what you need to know.
Share to linkedinGoogle's Gmail email service is used by upwards of 1.5 billion people. The Google Calendar app, meanwhile, has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Play Store. Security researchers have this week warned that threat actors are exploiting the popularity of both in order to target users with a credential-stealing attack. Here's what you need to know.
When a calendar invitation is sent to a user, a pop-up notification appears on their smartphone. The threat actors craft their invitations to include a malicious link, leveraging the trust that user familiarity with calendar notifications brings with it.attackers throughout the last month using this technique to effectively spam users with phishing links to credential stealing sites.
If turning off the automatic adding of events to your calendar is impractical, and it's likely to be just that for many who rely on this type of scheduling, then Boris Cipot, a senior security engineer at Synopsys, has some general mitigation advice."Question every email and in this case invitation you receive," he says,"if it feels weird, wrong or unusual then ask the person who sent this invite if they really sent it.
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