



Reported on May 4, Google shutdowns many phishing attack this week. This Scam is named as Google Docs worm affected many Gmail users. People received email containing link to open a google Doc. On clicking link accounts get hacked and users lost their personal information.









According to Google, link is received by another Gmail id and looks very similar to original google docs sharing window. On clicking button it redirects user to google docs but in back end link sends all data of user to third-party. Although Google didn’t disclose the amount of users get affected by this Scam but by the seriousness of this news shows that a huge amount of users gets affected. The main reason why many users gets affected because email containing fake link seems to come from google. So unknowingly many users clicked the button and lost their personal information.





Google said that they have closed many offending accounts and will take care that these kinds of events will never happen again.



