Unlike regular spam, which Gmail does a pretty good job of filtering out, this message not only makes it into your inbox, it gets an added layer of legitimacy by coming from Google itself. An email notification created by the scam, which also comes from Google, also contains a potentially malicious link. If tapped, the notification takes you directly to a document that contains a very large, tempting link. On mobile, the scam uses the collaboration feature in Google Drive to generate a push notification inviting people to collaborate on a document. The smartest part of the scam is that the emails and notifications it generates come directly from Google. The scam itself is nothing new – messages asking you to click on dodgy links are as old as the internet itself – but could catch a lot of people off guard. Google Backup and Sync functionality is being replaced by the Drive for Desktop client, a feature of Google Drive. A flaw in the Drive is being exploited to send out seemingly legitimate emails and push notifications from Google that, if opened, could land people on malicious websites. Scammers just found a new phishing lure to play with: Google Drive.
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