Last few days were hype that Google Docs links possess the nasty phishing scam. If you get any Google Docs link in your mailbox scrutinize carefully before clicking.Google claimed that they’ve stopped the phishing scam email which had reached to millions of their users. It was declared previously that the scam came from Google Docs;this doc serves people to edit and share documents online conveniently.
Users who followed the link instructions after clicking have risked by giving hackers access to their mailboxes. Although, Google has claimed stopping viral attack ‘within approximately one hour’ adding further, removal of fake applications and pages.
“While contact information was accessed and used by the campaign, our investigations show that no other data was exposed,” Google told in a revised statement.
Fake pages have been removed, updates pushed via Safe Browsing and Google’s abuse team is working hard to avert such spoofing from occurring again.