Gmail breach and fake addresses

[OCMerrill]

That is terrible...just awful...I work in the cyber field and see tons of these attacks. It is still high percentage of companies, but threat actors know defenses are low for individuals, so they are targeting high net-worth or elderly as they are easy targets. Unfortunately, all the personal data is on the dark web due to the big hacks as well as former passwords or hashes to passwords; so its easy for them to recon targets. With AI and the voice and video matching its gonna get worse...was talking to another CISO recently and he did a quick five-minute recording of himself using some easily available AI based deep fake software...played a 30 sec simulated clip from the 5 min recording and the his two teen sons could not spot the fake. These technologies are only going to get better. Lots of regulation in development for AI, but the bad guys won't be playing by the rules.

I am going to read what you wrote to her today. Yesterday she called me in tears as the reality is setting in. This should he her understand somewhat.

Thanks for taking the time.

 

[rivermobster]

This is not related directly buy my 83 year old mother was scammed out of $16k about 3 weeks ago.

They knew her info (because they have been reading her Yahoo Email for God knows how long), posed as Wells Fargo, told her there was fraud, and she bought into all their instructions. She wired the money. Its truly sad because she really has no money. I cant blame Wells Fargo either and all the reports were taken but it happens all the time. Her Homeowners Insurance is just condo coverage and there is nothing there for her.

I could go into this more because she was on the phone with them for 3+ hrs and all the bullshit they told her to do.

The really shitty part is apparently she doesn't trust me enough to even ask me. I was home and would have stopped the whole thing. But now I am funding the mess until she can manage to save something to live off of.

Jesuz, I just saw this Dave, that's nuts!!!

Yahoo is Almost worse that GoDaddy as far as infrastructure hacks go. Yahoo's entire program has been hacked Multiple times.

So sorry to read about this.

 

[Deckin Around]

I just got bombarded with hundreds of junk emails in the last hour. I hope I’m not screwed

Do you see anything weird in your sent or trash folders?

I didn't so I'm not sure if my email was ever used by someone sending outgoing emails.

 

[Smupser]

Do you see anything weird in your sent or trash folders?

I didn't so I'm not sure if my email was ever used by someone sending outgoing emails.

a lot came into my inbox but my spam filter also caught a lot and went into that folder. I deleted all of them and it seemed to have stopped as of this morning

 

[gqchris]

Do you see anything weird in your sent or trash folders?

I didn't so I'm not sure if my email was ever used by someone sending outgoing emails.

You would not see as the attackers delete any sent email that they sent as to not tip you off.