In a work setting, this could be a colleague asking you to check over a slide in a presentation or a brief for a new project. By default, Drive wants you to know when someone has mentioned you on a document. And Google Drive is pretty accommodating. The success of email spam filters has left scammers looking for new ways to get people to click on malicious links. 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. This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.
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