Users of Google’s Gmail have been receiving spam that appears to have been sent from their own accounts. Google said it was aware of a spam campaign impacting a “small subset of Gmail users” and was taking measures to protect against it. The attackers used forged email headers to make it appear that users were sending emails to themselves, which led to those emails erroneously appearing in their sent folders. The company has identified the offending emails and is reclassifying them as spam.
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Google Puts a Lid on Mysterious ‘Self-Spamming’
Posted by: David Jones April 24, 2018 11:14 AMUsers of Google’s Gmail have been receiving spam that appears to have been sent from their own accounts. Google said it was aware of a spam campaign impacting a “small subset of Gmail users” and was taking measures to protect against it. The attackers used forged email headers to make it appear that users were sending emails to themselves, which led to those emails erroneously appearing in their sent folders. The company has identified the offending emails and is reclassifying them as spam.