Security Researchers Warn Of Massive Malware Campaign Aimed At Google Docs Users
We’re speaking in the past tense because we’re talking about Google Docs’ public release back in 2012, but it’s not as if the application suite has become less popular. Thousands of businesses and millions of individuals rely on Google Docs. Naturally, that makes it even more of a massive, delicious target for bad actors than it already was, and Avanan (a security company under the Check Point umbrella) is warning of exactly such a danger.
Avanan says it has seen the attack used primarily targeting Outlook users, although it could be used for any e-mail address that is used to login to a Google account. The security firm says that the hackers it observed attempting this exploit used over 100 different G-mail accounts to create the fishy comments, likely knowing that the entire account would be creamed once Google got wind of its misdeeds.
Because the e-mail comes directly from Google and directly to a specific user, and because the e-mail doesn’t contain any e-mail addresses, this specific exploit punches right through most spam filters and content…