Google has warned most of its 2.5 billion users of Gmail that update their passwords and reinforce the safety of your accounts, since the hackers have carried out a significant amount of successful intrusions.
Recommends users to be in Maximum alert against suspicious activities and add additional security measures, such as two factors authentication, if they have not yet done so.
Hackers usually access Gmail’s passwords by sending emails with links to false login pages or cheating users to share their two factors authentication codes.
While most users have safe and unique passwords, Only one third updates them periodically, According to Google data.
On the other hand, Google has also recommended to its clients that They reinforce their security measures after a filtration of their own Salesforce database.
In June, he warned that malicious actors were attacking people posing as technical support personnel. This attack largely compromised public data, such as small and medium -sized contact data.
“We believe that the actors of threats that use the brand ‘ShinyHunters’ They could be preparing to intensify their extortion tactics by launching a data filtration site (DLS), ”said Google in a June blog post.
Shinyhunters, which apparently takes its name from the Pokémon franchise, was founded in 2020 and since then it has been related to several High profile leaks of companies such as AT&T, Microsoft, Santander and Ticketmaster. (YO)
