{"id":212044,"date":"2025-04-22T02:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/phishers-abuse-google-oauth-to-spoof-google-in-dkim-replay-attack"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:12:29","slug":"phishers-abuse-google-oauth-to-spoof-google-in-dkim-replay-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/phishers-abuse-google-oauth-to-spoof-google-in-dkim-replay-attack","title":{"rendered":"Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phishers-abuse-google-oauth-to-spoof-google-in-dkim-replay-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google\u2019s systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent page that collected logins.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker leveraged Google\u2019s infrastructure to trick recipients into accessing a legitimate-looking \u201csupport portal\u201d that asks for Google account credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudulent message appeared to come from \u201c<a href=\"mailto:no-reply@google.com\" target=\"_blank\">no-reply@google.com<\/a>\u201d and passed the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) authentication method but the real sender was different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google\u2019s systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent page that collected logins. The attacker leveraged Google\u2019s infrastructure to trick recipients into accessing a legitimate-looking \u201csupport portal\u201d that asks for Google account credentials. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212044","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}