Parker Higgins is a user on mastodon.xyz. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse. If you don't, you can sign up here.

🚨🚨🚨 Really major Gmail phishing attack going around right now. Do NOT click on an unexpected "Open in Docs" link.

Whether or not you have, now is a great time to review the apps you've authed to your account: security.google.com/settings/s

@xor what does it look like after clicking on it? Is it a zero interaction thing or is there the normal "authorize blah blah blah"? What does that page look like?

@nightpool @xor Judging from articles, it sounds like it asks you to authorize an app but it the app has the same name and icon as the actual Google Docs

Parker Higgins @xor

@chris @nightpool this is correct. The URL for the app (not displayed but you can hover to see) is a not-Google link. Extremely subtle.

If "Google Docs" appears in the list I linked, nuke it

· Web · 0 · 0

@xor @chris @nightpool from what I can tell (and based on the conversation on HN) it appears it redirects to googledocs.gdocs.pro after getting the OAuth token. Wish I had an actual example.

@chris @xor @nightpool tl;dr no one should be expecting their apps to have access to their apps on the same service.