Moderators hazelnut Posted November 30, 2016 Moderators Share Posted November 30, 2016 As a result of a lot of hard work done by our security research teams, we revealed today a new and alarming malware campaign. The attack campaign, named Gooligan, breached the security of over one million Google accounts. The number continues to rise at an additional 13,000 breached devices each day. Gooligan has breached over a million Google accounts. We believe that it is the largest Google account breach to date, and we are working with Google to continue the investigation. We encourage Android users to validate whether their accounts have been breached. There is a link on the website to check if you are one of the million ( that's an awful lot ) Also contains at the bottom a list of all the affected apps. http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/11/30/1-million-google-accounts-breached-gooligan/ website seems to under a lot of pressure at the moment so may take a while to load Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted November 30, 2016 Moderators Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks for the info hazel. EDIT: Just read this, which is quite funny considering the topic subject ... A Quarter of the Most Vulnerable Software Applications Are Security Products: Companies such as Google (through Project Zero) and Cisco (through the Talos team) have been busy in the past few months exposing security flaws in security software and third-party libraries often used as the building blocks for these products, and others. Strange old world isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Glad I don't have a smart phone or any IOT devices. Compromising desktop PCs is so old fashioned. I'm safer now than I ever was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasgandy Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Many thanks for the heads up hazelnut...............thankfully it appears that my account has not been breached (fingers crossed) Always With Kind RegardsTasgandy"one is never too old to listen & learn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_rchardson Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Its a really very sad news. Few days before I came to know this. Some hacker force us to log in google accounts. If you want to log in google service you will see accounts.google.com then it will redirect you to a new page and will tell you to enter gmail id and pass and if you do so they will get all info of your gmail id. I can't believe it. I knew no one can beat Google. So it is sure we can nowhere upload our very essential documents and pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
System_Error_Message Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 This isnt sad news, its just news on how dumb people are to installed malware and get phished. If it was hacked by some technical method instead without phishing or scamming than you should be worried instead such as how hackers got past the 2 stage authentication by tricking phone companies to give sim cards of the victim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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