Many purport to be “personal notifications” from Google Drive, with one lure entitled “Personal Notification No 8482” telling the victim they haven’t signed into their account in awhile. The Google Drive notifications come with various lures. The report said that the notifications are being sent in Russian or broken English. The attack is targeting hundreds of thousands of Google users, according to WIRED. “Google sheets slide was shared with an email address causing a pop-up notification on mobile.” “Interesting TTP utilising Google Sheets, ultimately ending up with generic prize scams,” said a cybersecurity expert who goes by Jake (or on Twitter. Other iterations of the attack are sent via email (instead of by notification) and include the malicious link right in the email. Attackers are abusing this feature to send mobile users Google Drive notifications that invite them to collaborate on documents, which then contain malicious links.īecause they are sent via Google Drive, the notifications come from Google’s no-reply email address, making them appear more legitimate. Scammers are leveraging a legitimate Google Drive collaboration feature to trick users into clicking on malicious links.Īccording to reports, the recent attack stems from Google Drive’s legitimate collaboration feature, which allows users to create push notifications or emails that invite people to share a Google doc.
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