Google really does take your security seriously and has been proving as much by the swathe of increasingly sophisticated protections against cyber attack it has introduced in recent months. With an estimated 2.5 billion active users, one of the main targets for hackers is your Gmail account. As reports of the latest session cookie stealing, two-factor authentication bypassing, cyber attacks against Gmail users flood in; there’s one surprisingly simple defensive action you can take right now to help protect your email. However, you need to do it now as otherwise it could be too late to help you if you fall victim to a 2FA-bypass Gmail attack: open a second Gmail account and add one rule to protect your data.
Imagine waking up to find that your Google account has been hacked and you are now locked out of access to your Gmail inbox as a result. For far too many people, that nightmare vision is all too much a reality as hackers employ session cookie-stealing techniques to bypass 2FA protections attack. Cybercrime agencies quite rightly warn users of online accounts to protect them with 2FA wherever it is available as an option. Google has introduced secure passkey sign-in access across devices and includes safe browsing protections for Chrome users. Yet still the attackers deploy increasingly sophisticated methods to get around those protections including, as I recently reported, tools to bypass even the stringent application-bound encryption process Google has in place to prevent cookie theft.
Source: Forbes