They came from different companies that have no connection to each other, I assume others are seeing them too right about now. Anyone know whats up?
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#2"&redirect_uri=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.docscloud.info%2Fg.php&customparam=3Dcustomparam"
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#3Same here. Several emails so far from different seemingly random companies and individuals with clearly malicious Google Docs requests w/ a suspicious param in the oauth request in the link: "&redirect_uri=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.docscloud.info%2Fg.php&customparam=3Dcustomparam"
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#4Same here. Several emails so far from different seemingly random companies and individuals with clearly malicious Google Docs requests w/ a suspicious param in the oauth request in the link: "&redirect_uri=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.docscloud.info%2Fg.php&customparam=3Dcustomparam"
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#5This is what the attack actually looks like: https://twitter.com/zachlatta/status/859843151757955072
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#9If you fell for this, changing your password is not the right solution - you want to log into your google account and remove permissions from the application.
https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?pli=1 should show a list of apps connected to your account.
Also, if you fell for this, you sent a bunch of emails to people like the one you received, so maybe tell them not to click.
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#10On initial inspection the URL looks harmless, but it's got some malicious params in there, mainly
redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.php
It appears to request read/send access to your email, and then spam all your contacts