Warning: Google Ads Phishing Attack For Google Accounts

It is not that uncommon, unfortunately, to spot Google Ads that are designed to bargain your login credentials for various platforms, including your Google account. Now, erstwhile you hunt for "my business," which is really galore businesses login to their Google Business Profile account, you are presented pinch a Google Ad that will effort to drawback your login credentials and return complete your account.

Again, this is really not common, but I cognize galore of you do this "my business" hunt and since precocious past night, this advertisement has been unrecorded and moving successful stealing businesses' Google relationship login credentials. So I want to telephone this 1 retired publicly.

It was spotted by Dan Foland connected X who walked america done the process and screens.

All you do is hunt for [my business] and you get this advertisement (I tried it successful galore browsers astatine 6:20am ET - respective hours aft Dan posted astir it) and yes, it comes up:

Here are Dan's posts that locomotion you done the hack:

Google "my business" arsenic galore group do to negociate their GBP profiles. There's an advertisement that LOOKS for illustration it's from Google. pic.twitter.com/6AeTzdL62M

When you click connected immoderate nexus you get a pop-up that looks for illustration a legit Google login (it's not). P.S. [email protected] doesn't exist, truthful a existent Google login shape would extremity you aft you click Next. pic.twitter.com/I2mWQIaB9R

Paste the code, and boom. You've conscionable fixed them entree to your computer, passwords, files etc. All while assuming you were connected a legit Google-owned tract the full time.

Be observant and do not do this... Go straight to the web site, don't click the ads!

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