The messages are in English or Russian, and contain quite prominent links, perhaps this is enough to arouse suspicion in many users, but not for others, and this type of scams can easily evolve to be more convincing tomorrow and speak in your language. It is a new phishing campaign that is is taking advantage of a bug in Drive to send push notifications through mobile, notification emails to Gmail, and in other cases, like having Drive connected to Slack, I even receive spam in the company workspace. Personally, I have been a recipient of these types of notifications for several days. The notification is legitimate and comes from Google, the shared document is the problem One of the main ways to identify a phishing email is looking at the sender’s email address for suspicious thingsBut when the message comes from a legitimate Google address, you have to take a closer look.Ī new scam is taking advantage of Google Drive to evade the anti-spam measures that Gmail has, and fill our inbox with notifications to shared documents that may contain malicious links. If you get weird notifications from Google Drive be careful when opening shared documents, it is a new phishing scam

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