If you accidentally clicked on the Google phishing attack<br />and gave spammers third-party access to your Google account, you can revoke their access by following these steps:<br />Revoke access to “Google Docs” (the app will have access to contacts and drive).<br />Spammers, cybercriminals and, increasingly, nation-state spies are resorting to basic email attacks, known as spear phishing, which bait victims into clicking on links<br />that download malicious software, or lure them into turning over their user names and passwords.<br />Email Attack Hits Google: What to Do if You Clicked -<br />By NICOLE PERLROTHMAY 3, 2017<br />Google said it was investigating an email scam winding its way through inboxes across the country<br />and had disabled the accounts responsible for the spam.<br />A quarter of phishing attacks studied last year by Verizon were found to be nation-state spies trying<br />to gain entry into their target’s inboxes, up from the 9 percent of attacks reported in 2016.<br />In a second statement, on Wednesday evening, Google said<br />that it had disabled the accounts responsible for the spam, updated its systems to block it and was working on ways to prevent such an attack from recurring.
