account security
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A Google Security Alert Landed in Your Inbox. Google Didn’t Send It.
A warning from Google about your account is one of the few emails most people open without a second thought. This month, real inboxes received one of those warnings, and Google had not sent it.
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You Signed In to a Drawing. It Wasn’t Google.
Scammers built fake AI advertising tools that draw a Google sign-in window inside the page, then take your password — and the code from your phone. Here is the one test that tells a real window from a drawing.
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Scan a QR Code for a Vote? That Tap Can Cost You 600 Euro
A WhatsApp message asks you to vote for a girl in a dance competition. The link wants your phone number, then a code or a QR scan — and that one scan hands your account to strangers.
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Someone Sends You a Code. Typing It Hands Them Your Email
Microsoft has shut down EvilTokens, a criminal kit that tricked more than 12,000 people into handing over their email by typing in a code.