{"id":884,"date":"2008-07-02T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:39:23","slug":"google-calendar-a-new-target-for-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2008\/07\/google-calendar-a-new-target-for-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar a New Target for Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>It seems like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/tag\/phishing\/\">Phishing<\/a> crews at trying to get some new ideas on how to con people into giving away their credentials and leaking info.<\/p>\n<p>The latest target appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\">Google Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always be on your guard as these scams are coming from all directions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few months ago, spam came to Google Calendar. Now phishing has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Intrepid Google watcher Philipp Lenssen wrote late last week about being the target of a phishing attempt via Google Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>He received an e-mail to his Gmail account with a reference to a legitimate event from his calendar. The sender was listed as &#8220;customer care,&#8221; and it asked him to verify his account by supplying his username and password. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to the same old style as normal e-mail phishing but utilising the Google Calendar interface. It comes bundled with the usual spelling and grammatical errors that plague phishing e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people are falling for this one? If generic phishing ploys are anything to go by&#8230;it will be quite a lot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 28, a Google Talk Guide addressed the issue in a Google Groups thread, urging users to click the &#8220;Report Phishing&#8221; link if they receive suspicious e-mails and not to click on links within the e-mails or open attachments.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Monday, a Google representative e-mailed this statement: &#8220;Spam is an issue for all Internet users, and we work very hard to fight it. Using Google Calendar, or any Google product, to send spam is a violation of our product policies. We are actively identifying Calendar accounts that send spam and disabling them.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps drop a note to any non-tech friends using Google Calendar just to warn them that this is happening.<\/p>\n<p>You might save someone a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10784_3-9981349-7.html\">Cnet<\/a> (<em>Thanks to Navin<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] It seems like the Phishing crews at trying to get some new ideas on how to con people into giving away their credentials and leaking info. The latest target appears to be Google Calendar. As always be on your guard as these scams are coming from all directions. A few months ago, spam came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,25],"tags":[83,8866,8864,385,8870,609],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}