Research from cybersecurity company Avanan has shown that hackers are increasingly using Google Docs’ productivity features to slip malicious content past spam filters and security tools.
Avanan’s Jeremy Fuchs said that in December, the company saw cyberattackers using the comment feature in Google Docs and Google Slides to leverage attacks against Outlook users.
“In this attack, hackers are adding a comment to a Google Doc. The comment mentions the target with an @. By doing so, an email is automatically sent to that person’s inbox. In that email, which comes from Google, the full comment, including the bad links and text, is included. Further, the email address isn’t shown, just the attackers’ name, making this ripe for impersonators,” Fuchs wrote in a blog post.
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Source: ZDNet