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Update on February 24th: Chrome has resolved this issue to my satisfaction. Earlier this month they released Chrome 56.0.2924 which changes the location bar behavior. If you now view a data URL, the location bar shows a “Not Secure” message which should help users realize that they should not trust forms presented to them via a data URL. It will help prevent this specific phishing technique.Update at 11:30pm on Tuesday January 17th: I have received an official statement from Google regarding this issue.
You can find the.As you know, at Wordfence we occasionally send out alerts about security issues outside of the WordPress universe that are urgent and have a wide impact on our customers and readers. Unfortunately this is one of those alerts. There is a highly effective phishing technique stealing login credentials that is having a wide impact, even on experienced technical users.I have written this post to be as easy to read and understand as possible. I deliberately left out technical details and focused on what you need to know to protect yourself against this phishing attack and other attacks like it in the hope of getting the word out, particularly among less technical users.
Please share this once you have read it to help create awareness and protect the community. The Phishing Attack: What you need to knowA new highly effective phishing technique targeting Gmail and other services has been gaining popularity during the past year among attackers.
Over the past few weeks there have been reports of experienced technical users being hit by this.This attack is currently being used to target Gmail customers and is also targeting other services.The way the attack works is that an attacker will send an email to your Gmail account. That email may come from someone you know who has had their account hacked using this technique. It may also include something that looks like an image of an attachment you recognize from the sender.You click on the image, expecting Gmail to give you a preview of the attachment.
Instead, a new tab opens up and you are prompted by Gmail to sign in again. You glance at the location bar and you see accounts.google.com in there. RobM January 16, 2017 at 7:05 amThe lock symbol isn't a sign that you're connecting securely with your intended site.
Mike January 18, 2017 at 9:38 am2-factor authentication is critical, but it will not prevent me from falling for a phishing site. Yes, it will prevent an attacker from gaining access to my mail account. But if I use my password elsewhere, they still have my credentials to trying using at other sites.A password storage app like 1Password makes it easy to keep separate passwords for every site, so getting access to one site limits the damage to that site.And the best answers to those 'security questions' used as an alternative to 2-factor are made-up! It's far too easy to find your real mother's maiden name, schools, old addresses, etc. Mike January 25, 2017 at 12:43 pmI would consider myself a technical user that does not use 2factor.Short answer: PrivacyI have several gmail accounts that are only accessed through different SSH proxies (i.e. Each account is correlated by google to only a single IP)My phone number is only tied to a single account which I use on my phone.
I connect to that account through the same proxy every time. My other accounts I connect to on other proxies.
The reason for this is so that Google cannot correlate the different accounts as all belonging to the same user.I wont dive into any further details, but the point is privacy. Grant January 12, 2017 at 9:25 amThis is very similar to how eBay phishing campaigns work. For example: you receive an official looking inquiry on an existing (note: public) auction you are running, and click the 'Respond Now' button.
The combination of recent and familiar data with the official look is tricky. This a great reason to never click links in emails out of convenience.
Just navigate to the website or service manually on you own (i.e., go to Gmail.com yourself, then sign in). For many, that's a hard habit to break. JamesMac January 12, 2017 at 9:38 amBravo Zulu, Mark! I am a google/gmail user and have seen this issue before. Given how many services, such as CBS as an example, are using gmail credentials as a login/verification for their services, I would think that Google would devote significant attention to this attack method that targets their customers. The fact that Google is turning the cheek, so to speak, seriously bothers me. It should also bother CBS and the many others who allow users to create their account using Google credentials.
I used CBS as an example here because I have a CBS All Access account that I pay for each month, and I log into it using Google, thus I am very familiar with the service.I would also point out, while it is true that I seldom voice my opinions on such matters publicly, this article is very well written. You cover the danger, the method, and the flaws not just in how google is handling this but also in human nature which allows these exploits the succeed. Your suggested solution is still based upon humans learning what to watch for, even if it is an amber warning and icon that should grab their attention, but it seems that these days many people have become lazy or in a hurry thus opening the door for exploits such as this one. I forget now who said it, but to quote them anyway: 'A shield does you no good if it is hanging on the wall when the arrow strikes your heart.' I would also point out that Google does have some limited protection for those who use features like the bar code verification and a registered smart phone.
Kyle January 12, 2017 at 9:42 amI thought this part was particularly clever: 'something that looks like an image of an attachment you recognize from the sender'. This is something I don't think would catch me on a good day (since real gmail attachment previews have some onHover features), but when you're tired or rushed. Easy mistake to make. And I think one of the original Hacker News posts mentions that the only reason he noticed something was phishy (:D) was because that image was sliiightly fuzzy on his high-DPI monitor.Nasty stuff; thanks for helping to spread the word!
Nnaemeka January 12, 2017 at 9:42 amThank Mark,I was attacked by a similar mechanism. One contact who has had financial dealing with me sent me a pdf attachment. When I clicked the attachment, I was asked to enter my Gmail password to unlock it. But I reasoned that no one has the right to ask me to use my Gmail password to unlock some file.
I took another look at the email the sender used and it was that of the acquaintance. I had to arrive at a conclusion that the guy's email has been compromised.Something similar to what you described has also happened earlier. But in this case the sender is not known to me. So, I refused to log in when the log in page was presented, upon clicking the attachment the scammer sent me.
I almost fell prey to it. Jim Sto January 12, 2017 at 9:51 amI can post my username and password on every bill board worldwide, I can even give it to you, unless you have my phone you won't get anywhere. This is not really a big issue and Gmail knows that.GET 2 FACTOR SIGN IN and go to sleep every night like a baby.I have 2 factor sign in for Gmail & Hotmail and never had an issue, hackers would have to come to my country steal my phone and go back and try, when I try to sign in from an unknown computer 2 factor sign in kicks in, sure it takes a few seconds longer but at least I'm safe.
Ken January 12, 2017 at 10:15 amOne thing you can do (in Gmail in a browser) to see if you've been hacked is to check your login activity. Visit for info. It's basically scroll to the bottom of your inbox and click 'Details' (very small in the far lower right hand corner of the screen). This will show you all currently active sessions as well as your recent login history. If you see active logins from unknown sources, you can force close them.
If you see any logins in your history from places you don't know, you may have been hacked. Stuart Buckell January 12, 2017 at 10:19 amThanks for the informative post,I should add; One of the best ways to protect yourself against this attack is to add 2-factor authentication to your account, and use Google Authenticator application with your phone.You can find more information here will almost guarantee your safety, since a new login from a new browser will trigger 2-factor process (they will not have your cookie), resulting in your password being useless.RegardsStuart. Jeremy January 12, 2017 at 10:36 amI was able to reproduce the URL aspect of the hack easily enough, but when I added the hack code to a link in an email and sent it from server-side code via PHP, Gmail stripped the link from the email.All other links were left unchanged.I tried several escape combinations but Gmail either removed the link or re-wrote the URL appending the sender domain, which broke the hack.The source code was correct, so the code wasn't modified by my SMTP during the send, so it must have been Gmail that stripped the hacked code. Jeremy January 18, 2017 at 4:41 amPaula, you should consider:1. How central to your online presence is the account for that breached site? If it were your main email account, for example, that's rather crucial and has great potential for harm. But an account that was merely established to gain access to something and stored very little personal / sensitive information would be of less concern.2.
Did you use the password for the breached login with any other site logins? Re-using passwords is a bad habit of many internet users, and can be stopped by simply using a password manager to create and store long, unique passwords for every login you have.
Be sure to change the password (and any other authentication measures like security questions, recovery codes, etc.) for the breached site as well as any sites for which you used the same password.Your answers to those two questions I've asked correlate to your question 'does that mean they have access to everything now?' It's unlikely unless a critical account was breached or you tend to use the same password or just a few passwords across all your online accounts.To answer your question about time of breach, you can probably simply Google 'name of breached service breach' to find articles about it. Many high-profile breaches will be mentioned by several websites and reading such material may give you a clearer picture of when it may have occurred.
PLeal January 12, 2017 at 3:02 pmAnything mentioned before the http(s) part of any URL should be an alert that the page you're about to view may not be valid/verified. In addition - if you've received an email in your Gmail account, then you're already signed in - so to click on a link that requires you to sign in again should be another red flag that something's not right. It all seems innocent and we can easily get caught up in the process - but small precautionary actions like looking at the URL can be the difference between safe browsing and getting hacked. On the flip side - if your account is compromised, it is imperative to change your login details (primarily passwords.) Also, if you think it's appropriate - perhaps share on your social channels that your account has been compromised and that your contacts should ignore messages from your account for the next little while (or something to that effect.). Someone January 16, 2017 at 4:30 amThis advice is all well and good in hindsight, but:1) 'Logging in again' under certain circumstances is a common privacy/security feature on many services.2) The fact that it doesn't target an external website but the website you're.already on. means that the cue to check the validity of the link (which is usually being redirected to an external site) is removed.This attack is particularly malicious because it acknowledges the behavioural habits of even vigilant and security-savvy folks and finds a crack in them.
Heather Wimberly January 12, 2017 at 3:49 pmThe security on Gmail is so friggin' secure that I have found myself locked out of my own primary account with no possible way to get back in because Google tells me they can't verify my identity. I had to set up an alternate identity with an alternate persona and now you're telling me that may have been hacked? Moira LaPorte wishes you all the best of luck figuring out who what when where and how anybody is on the system I am using now. If you do figure it out, please let me know. Rob Roy January 12, 2017 at 3:58 pmA good reason to never leave email on a server.
Use an email client like Thunderbird to connect to mail server, POP access, and download all mail to it, and have it checked to 'NOT LEAVE MAIL ON SERVER'. If IMAP access is the only part allowed, download entire messages and not just headers in thunderbird, 'MOVE TO' another account you create in Thunderbird only, then on the IMAP account delete all messages in the Trash, go to Trash & immediately delete them.
This will cause them all to be moved and deleted on the webserver too.Safer is buy a domain name, most come with a free email account you set up on them. These hackers don't much go for individual smalltime domain names, but the large ones from yahoo, gmail, aol, etc.
January 12, 2017 at 7:56 pmSharing this.Also thinking through the two-factor authentication (since I have it turned on). Wrapping my brain around that piece.If this happened to me and I clicked the image, it would take me to a login page, but Google would NOT ask me for a 2nd authentication at that point because I would be logging in on a browser I already use.Depending upon how the hack happens.
If the hackers could be in my account at that exact point, they could change the settings in my GMail to no longer require two-factor authentication. Then any time they logged in after that, it wouldn't send a message because no second step would be required.If, however, the hack simply sends them my login credentials, which they tried to use later, then since they are on a different browser, the 2-factor authentication should kick in, send me a message when they tried to log in at some point later, and I would know something was wrong.I guess it just depends upon how they have their hack structured, if they're immediately in the account live and making changes to the settings, whether that is done by software or a person. I'd think if they can write up a hack, they would be able to make that happen too, at which point the two-factor authentication couldn't help.
Roland January 13, 2017 at 2:03 amJust thought I'd share this: Chrome has different ways of displaying the security status. Sites with EV-certificates seem to have a green lock-icon followed by 'The name of the certificate holder Sites with 'regular' certificates have a green lock-icon followed by 'Secure both these cases, everything before the '://' is green (eg. Justin January 14, 2017 at 10:46 amMark,I work in the account security department of a large online company, and I can sadly confirm that 2-factor authentication (2FA) is not the 100% foolproof account protection many people believe it to be. It can be circumvented with well-designed phishing websites which combine the disguise of a web forgery, a simple web bot, and social engineering. It is called a Man-In-The-Middle phishing attack.Here's a brief example of how it could work:1) Start with a phishing example like the one described here. Katharine January 14, 2017 at 7:37 pmIn this case, if a person has 2 gmail accounts, perhaps the phishing entity will now know of the 2nd one? Or will?I have encountered something like this in Chrome, in AvastSafeZone, and in Explorer-is that possible?Having a hard time getting anything done.
I was scared to go beyond the first prompt, knowing it to be weird (a good sign of things gone wrong) and tried for a workaround, asked in a group and got this addy, and decided just to ditch Chrome until it got its life straightened out. Now in AvastSafeZone and finding the same thing.
I'm going nuts. Explorer won't even let me in. Ha!In each place, I'm at the point of not going beyond the first request to re-sing in to gmail. Is it safe just to work in, say, facebook? I do not know enough even to understand some of the terms, here, but I know when stuff is weird.:'(. Katharine January 14, 2017 at 7:50 pmOh, AND. I forgot to say Explorer tells me my password to gmail was changed 30 hours ago and that it will send a one-time six-digit code numeral to my other account, into which I cannot gain access due to their not knowing it exists when I try to go there.
Arrgh.In both cases of my encountering this problem, I was trying to close an email from a, trusted entity.First time was wp help.Second time I think I remember was a friend.Wish I could say I feel totally confident giving my ph no to folks.:'(. Andrew Weeks January 14, 2017 at 2:52 pmThanks a lot for the great article! If you're using Chrome, Google has a plugin called Password Alert to help notify you about entering your password on incorrect domains. Seems to offer a nice second line of defence, along with 2FA (and particularly if you're concerned about time-of-use phishing attacks).'
If you enter your Gmail or Google for Work password into anywhere other than accounts.google.com, you’ll receive an alert, so you can change your password if needed.' Patrick Klos January 16, 2017 at 6:03 amYou mention that people should look for the protocol and then the hostname, but you've made it too simple, which makes it wrong. Instead, people need to look for 'exactly (with the '/' AFTER the hostname. Your instructions tell people something like 'would be an OK URL, when clearly, it is not.Then you turn to describing how Google could fix this, but Google can't fix things they have no control over.
People also use Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox. They won't necessarily know from your article that your comments don't apply to their browser.You go on to tell people they can check their account via the following: 'Visit for info.
To use this feature, scroll to the bottom of your inbox and click “Details” (very small in the far lower right hand corner of the screen).' I've tried that - there is not 'Details' link anywhere on the page. Maybe it's a Chrome thing? Maybe the link is out of date? Whatever the reason, it doesn't work for everyone.Thanks for the heads-up! Ollie January 16, 2017 at 7:40 amIt might help us to recognize this kind of thing if Google and the other webmail services adopted Extended Validation TLS certificates. It would let them control a sliver of the real estate they call 'trusted' to enhance trust.For example, compare the location bar on Troy Hunt's web site with the one on, say, this web site, or on gmail or outlook.com.
The former one announces the name and owner of the web site.It costs more to get one of these extended validation certs. But they might help people recognize attacks by cybercrooks. William Porter January 17, 2017 at 11:46 pmThanks for this.
I'll pass this on to my clients and family members.One quibble. You write, 'Changing your password every few months is good practice in general.' Merely changing your password periodically does nothing at all to increase security, if you don't also increase the password's entropy (length and/or complexity) when you change it. In other words, changing from 'R/ebit18' to 'o'Harq15' is pretty pointless. On the other hand, changing from 'R/rbit18' to 'lettle r/ebit inde hotch!' Would be worth doing, as the 25-character password is considerably more secure than the 8-character password.
But once you've got a long, strong password, there's no security benefit to changing it - unless you think it's been compromised.Commenter Justin quite rightly warns that two-factor authentication is not bulletproof. But two-factor authentication is still a powerful extra layer of protection.So:— Use long strong passwords, unique for every site.
Use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass.— Enable two-factor or two-step authentication wherever it's available, which in 2017 is nearly everywhere (Google, Dropbox, bank account, credit cards, PayPal, etc.).— Always watch that location field in your browser, as instructed in the article above.It's a scary world out there. Joseph January 18, 2017 at 1:29 amIn this case, a password manager is a great fist line of defense. For me it is great because Roboform will only show the available passcodes for a site where the URL matches. In this case, it would not even show up even if I get lazy and do not look at the bar.
But, the human factor is one that needs to be improved because this is one of many issues where we are prone to being lazy and not paying attention. I think education is a big plus even for the novice.
Just like driving a car, you need to know the rules of the road and be prepared for many things that are unpredictable. I have all my clients educated to always select no on any pop ups if they are unsure so this is the next iteration of being careful. I do not think that you can account for every scenario. On another note, e-mail servers can be trained to look for certain items in the email and classify them as junk. This will probably yield to more false positives but will be a good step in minimizing what we see. Scott January 18, 2017 at 6:26 amGoogle has made users much more vulnerable through their 'one account' approach. If a user falls for the phishing attack, they don't just risk their email being seen or malware potentially getting on their machine and they don't just risk spreading the malice.
They risk their YouTube, Drive, Apps/G-Suite, Google Pay, Google Play, Project Fi, Google Voice, Google+ and many more accounts simultaneously. And if two factor isn't an option for email alone, they can't use it for any of those other services as it is a Google Account level setting. Phone, tablet, TV, PC/Mac and more may be using the same account and become vulnerable via access to the single account.The convenience / necessity of single sign-in access to many of these services may well be worth more than the security benefit of more separation but it does create much more risk. To make matters worse, these attacks vary which Google service they pretend to be signing in to along with varying the context of the content of the message or attachment name based on what they find in the outbox of the user they compromise and spread through. So separating email password from everything else, for example, to isolate the point of phishing attacks, doesn't mean the user won't give up their drive/accounts password anyway when prompted to do something related to the legitimate looking document request. Morgan January 18, 2017 at 10:49 amThanks as always for your proactivity on security issues.There are a LOT of previous comments, so forgive me if anyone has already said this, but why is anyone using Gmail in the first place?That's a constant security risk all on its own, not only to Gmail users, but to everyone they correspond with, Gmail user or not.
Gmail scans the full content of ALL email, outgoing AND incoming.Google's defense of this is that it's all automated, and just used to serve you relevant ads, but think about what that means: ANYTHING you discuss in email is a keyword in a file with your name on it on a Google server somewhere.Even if you trust Google intentions, and feel it's a fair trade-off for free email (which your Internet Service Provider probably offers for free without scanning your mail), all it takes is one disgruntled Google employee. Not to mention that non-gmail users you correspond with are never asked whether they consent to this.Phishing scams are usually a short-term risk, but Gmail users should be aware that just using Gmail poses another set of risks every day.