{"id":197441,"date":"2024-10-11T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-gmail-security-alert-for-billions-as-7-day-ai-hack-confirmed"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:24:42","slug":"new-gmail-security-alert-for-billions-as-7-day-ai-hack-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-gmail-security-alert-for-billions-as-7-day-ai-hack-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"New Gmail Security Alert For Billions As 7-Day AI Hack Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gmail-security-alert-for-billions-as-7-day-ai-hack-confirmed3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has implemented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2024\/04\/12\/google-confirms-major-gmail-ai-security-update-for-3-billion-users\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2024\/04\/12\/google-confirms-major-gmail-ai-security-update-for-3-billion-users\/\" aria-label=\"increasingly sophisticated protections\">increasingly sophisticated protections<\/a> against those who would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2024\/09\/30\/urgent-24-hour-new-gmail-app-password-warning-for-windows-mac-iphone-users\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2024\/09\/30\/urgent-24-hour-new-gmail-app-password-warning-for-windows-mac-iphone-users\/\" aria-label=\"compromise your Gmail account\">compromise your Gmail account <\/a>\u2014but hackers using AI-driven attacks are also evolving. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft solutions consultant, has issued a warning after almost falling victim to what is described as a \u201csuper realistic AI scam call\u201d capable of tricking even the most experienced of users.<\/p>\n<p>It all started a week before Mitrovic realized the sophistication of the attack that was targeting him. \u201cI received a notification to approve a Gmail account recovery attempt,\u201d Mitrovic recounts in <a href=\"https:\/\/sammitrovic.com\/infosec\/gmail-account-takeover-super-realistic-ai-scam-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/sammitrovic.com\/infosec\/gmail-account-takeover-super-realistic-ai-scam-call\/\" aria-label=\"a blog post warning other Gmail users\">a blog post warning other Gmail users<\/a> of the threat in question. The need to confirm an account recovery, or a password reset, is a notorious phishing attack methodology intended to drive the user to a fake login portal where they need to enter their credentials to report the request as not initiated by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has implemented increasingly sophisticated protections against those who would compromise your Gmail account \u2014but hackers using AI-driven attacks are also evolving. Here\u2019s what you need to know. Sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft solutions consultant, has issued a warning after almost falling victim to what is described as a \u201csuper realistic AI scam call\u201d capable of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}