by Ellyn Lapointe at Daily Mail
Google has confirmed a ‘sophisticated’ attack on 1.8 billion Gmail users’ data, prompting the tech giant to issue an urgent warning.
The phishing scam was first reported by Nick Johnson, a developer for the cryptocurrency platform Ethereum.
‘Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack,‘ Johnson posted on X Wednesday.
‘It exploits a vulnerability in Google’s infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we’re likely to see it a lot more,’ he said.
Johnson shared a screenshot of the email he received, which appeared to come from a legitimate Google address and said he had been served with a subpoena for his Google account, which would require him to hand over access.
‘The only hint it’s a phish is that it’s hosted on sites.google.com instead of accounts.google.com,’ Johnson said.
Clicking the fraudulent link in the email took him to a…
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