Gmail currently the world’s most popular and most trusted email service. Of course, the features that Google has offered for years and various security improvements play a big part in this. The ability to automatically catch spam emails instantly and protect users from hackers shows that Google does a tremendous job.
To contribute to this goal, Google on May 4 It introduced a new blue checkmark security feature similar to Twitter Blue. While this blue indicator should appear next to e-mails from original companies, the latest claims are that scammers have a hand in this business as well.
Don’t trust Gmail’s blue tick
While this security improvement offered by Google was expected to distinguish companies’ original e-mail accounts, it turned out that this feature had a vulnerability and was used for malicious purposes. So the researcher Chris Plummer demonstrated that hackers could abuse this feature. The official logo of a company and Gmail check mark Fake emails containing:
This e-mail in your inbox, UPS It looks like it came from his company, but that’s not the background. You can understand that this is a fake e-mail from the domain section. If you receive fake e-mails from UPS or any shipping company in this way, they may ask you for information such as your address. These Definitely you should not.
Hackers can try to steal your address, birth date and other private information with these emails, and the new method is to send an email on behalf of a company as you can see above.
Watch out for unknown numbers! Your iPhone can be hacked
Kaspersky has informed about the attack carried out for the “Operation Triangulation” vulnerability discovered on iPhone devices.
Google made the following statements on the subject:
After looking closely we realized that this is not a general SPF vulnerability. That’s why we’re dealing with this issue more closely and the appropriate team is looking at what’s going on.
It is unknown when Google will tackle this issue. Until then, you shouldn’t rely on the blue checkmarks appearing in Gmail. Always see if the sending address looks suspicious. Do not give your private information to anyone from Gmail and do not call companies on accounts you are not sure of. to customer service consult.
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