The FBI is urging you to take extra steps to protect your email accounts.Investigators say a group of developers breached the data of hundreds of people who use Outlook, Gmail and other popular ...

Gmail users are again falling victim to a sophisticated phishing attack that is locking victims out of their accounts. While these sorts of attacks are nothing new, cybercriminals now have AI on their ...

Users of Gmail have been put on alert with news of a “super realistic AI scam” that seeks to obtain control of their accounts for the perpetrators. The scam involves a series of calls and emails ...

A new Gmail phishing scam impersonates Google IT support to gain account access. The scam involves fake password recovery emails and requests for security codes. Google advises against clicking links ...

As AI-powered phone calls mimicking human voices have become incredibly realistic, a new report from Forbes warned that the email service’s 2.5 billion users could be targeted by “malicious” actors ...

Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...

Original story from August 18th, 2025: If you’re a Gmail user, you need to be particularly careful right now as criminals are currently targeting Gmail accounts. Hackers from a group called ...

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Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside, say they discovered a phone hack that allows them access to mobile Gmail accounts with a 92 percent success rate.

Gmail accounts are being compromised in a sophisticated phishing attack. If you lost access to your account, here's what you can do – and how to be better prepared. Blake has over a decade of ...