Phishers are leveraging Google Translate in their attempts to steal the login credentials for users’ Google and Facebook accounts.
Larry Cashdollar, a member of Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), received an email in early 2019 informing him that someone had accessed his Google account from a new Windows device. On his phone, the email looked relatively convincing in its condensed state. But examining the email on his laptop confirmed his suspicions: the email was fake and had originated from the suspicious sending address “facebook_secur@hotmail[dot]com.”