☕ TIL#09: Wazzup This Week in CyberSecurity? 👩‍💻, Cybercrimals Take Google Docs Phishing! 🧐

Published: Wed, 06/23/21

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Cybersecurity Highlight of the Week

Cyber Criminals Using Google Docs to Host Phishing Attacks

Cyber criminals often employ word documents and pdfs to spread malware. This week security analysts uncovered a new method in the wild using Google Docs. Here's what you need to know.

If a user clicks on the link, the page appears familiar to anyone using Google Docs to share documents outside their organization.

In it isn't the same page at all. It's a customer HTML page meant to look like the Google Docs share page that is familiar to users.

The user then reaches a page where a document is ready for download. If a user clicks on the download link, the page redirects to the actual malicious phishing website.

This site then steals the victim’s credentials using another web page made to look like the Google Login portal. It's actually hosted on a URL that's obviously not related to Google LLC.

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