Ah, found out something about this: From McAfee:
----- The Google Docs phishing scam is a textbook example: it aims to trick you into handing over sensitive login details, and it does exceptionally well <http://gizmodo.com/beware-of-this-dangerously-convincing-google-docs-phish-1546278702>. The scam starts with an email referring to an “important document” stored on Google Docs. Clicking on the link in this message will take you to what appears to be a Google Docs login page—but it’s not. This fake login page allows scammers to collect your username and password for their own malicious use. Unfortunately for Gmail users, the page in this case is remarkably convincing—emulating Google’s typical login page. And here’s the clincher: because this scam is hosted on Google’s servers (the scam is, after all, a public folder on Google Drive) it effectively sidesteps one of the more reliable ways to detect a phishing scam. Generally speaking, phishing URLs are one or two characters different from the official website that they’re masquerading as. To top things off, because the scammers were hosting this attack on Google’s servers, the URL appears to be secure. This attack on Google Doc users is especially troubling as Google uses a single login across all of their services. If the scammers successfully obtained login credentials for your Google Docs, they’d also be able to access your email, Chrome browsing history (including searches), YouTube account, and perhaps even be able to make purchases through the Google Play store if you’ve previously registered your payment information. Despite the sophistication of this scam, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. After its discovery earlier this week, Google has successfully removed the phishing pages. They’ve also stated that their “abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.” ----- I have changed my google password. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Brigham <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Shared Doc To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> It surely is malware -- a number of people in my address book have gotten this message. I am very sorry for the annoyance. This is the very first time in 20 years on the Mac I've had a problem with my machine getting hijacked. It looks as if this originates from google Docs, which I have never used, but someone recently sent me a link to a google Doc file, which I opened. I wonder if this somehow triggered something? Anyone using google Docs who knows something about this, I'd appreciate some insight. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM, PystCat <[email protected]> wrote: > I know… I’ve been getting a LOT of these the past month. They are getting > VERY annoying. > > > > On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:59 PM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On 11/3/2014, 4:54 PM, Pyst Cat wrote: > >> What is this..? Is this some kind of phishing expedition..? > > > > Probably malware on his computer. Ignore it. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
