Warning re fast spreading IT problem

[CeliaW]

Warning! Don't Click that Google Docs Link You Just Received in Your Email
http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/google-docs-phishing-email.html

Did someone just share a random Google Doc with you?

First of all*— Do not click on that Google Doc link you might have just received in your email and delete it immediately — even if it's from someone you know.

More info on the link given at the start of this post.

Edit to say a friend in the States saw my post on FB - he works for a big multi national and its hit two of their departments and in his dept he has had six emails in ten minutes with this rogue Google Docs link.


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[AlsoConfused]

Do the usual anti-virus / firewall software (eg Norton) kill this horror please? I'm sure I saw it in my in-box.

 

[nitram]

"Do the usual anti-virus / firewall software (eg Norton) kill this horror please? I'm sure I saw it in my in-box."

No, by clicking you are setting permissions on your Google account, if infected alter this permission.

Note that the email can appear to come from a legitimate source.

Google has now locked down their systems and removed the fake page.

Have a read through:-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/03/google_docs_hit_phishing_email_campaign/

 

[AlsoConfused]

Thanks again nitram.

 

[Canadian Joanne]

If something looks at all hinky to me, I simply delete it. I deleted a dear friend's text with her new email on it as she simply put the email and nothing else. I didn't recognize it and out it went.