Editor's Pick: Crafty Phishing Technique Can Trick Even Tech-Savvy Gmail Users

Crafty Phishing Technique Can Trick Even Tech-Savvy Gmail Users

David Jones Mar 17, 2017 10:45 AM PT
	Gmail users recently have been targeted by a sophisticated series of phishing attacks that use emails from a known contact. The emails contain an image of an attachment that appears to be legitimate, according to Wordfence. The sophisticated attack displays "accounts.gmail.com" in the browser's location bar and leads users to what appears to be a legitimate Google sign-in page. [More...]

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