Friday, 24 March, 2023

Google Drive's vulnerability may enable hackers to lead spear-phishing attacks

<p>System administrator A Nikoci said that hackers may trick Google Drive users into downloading malware into their systems. Google lets users change file versions without checking if it&rsquo;s the same type, allowing hackers to replace an original file with a malicious one. To make it worse, Chrome implicitly trusts Drive downloads and ignores if other antivirus software raises warning against it. This can lead to spear-phishing attacks as Drive files are sharable.</p>