In recent years, the use of collaborative platforms like Google Docs has become popular for sharing and working on the same documents at the same time. Some researchers have discovered how cybercriminals use this platform to spread malware.

To manage to send malware, criminals use the comment feature to hide malicious links from victims. To do this, they create a document and write a comment mentioning the victim's email address. Like this, what they will see is an innocent Google Docs message.

This is done so that email filters do not mark the email as fraudulent, ya que está camuflado entre contenido legítimo de Google y Google Docs. In addition, la dirección del remitente también queda oculta, solamente queda un nombre.

Los investigadores han identificado un ataque dirigido hacia unas 500 victims, utilizando 100 direcciones de GMail distintas para atacar.

As usual, la recomendación general es la de no abrir los mensajes de aquellos orígenes que desconozcamos y, Of course, no acceder a ningún enlace desconocido.

Fountain: Cybernews

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