Google Account Security: In this world of mobile, TV, computer and internet, as much as the facilities for people have increased, the difficulties have also increased. The biggest difficulty and problem of online users is to stay safe from cyber crime. Cyber criminals keep finding ways to hack the privacy of internet users every day. Something similar has happened this time too.
Cyber criminals have found a method with the help of which they can access the Google account of any user even without the password. Even if users reset their Google account password, hackers will still be able to access users’ Google account.
How do hackers use someone’s Google account?
This is a big danger for any user, because in today’s modern era, most of the people save all their personal data and passwords in their Google account. In such a situation, if hackers start using people’s Google accounts without the password, then the privacy of the entire world may be in danger. According to a report by The Independent, security firm CloudSEK has analyzed this new method of cyber crime. Furthermore, this issue first came to light when a hacker posted about it on a Telegram channel in October 2023.
In a report in The Independent, it has been told how due to errors in third party cookies, hackers can get access to the Google accounts of users. Let us tell you that third party cookies are used by websites and browsers to track users and show advertisements as per their needs, but now these third party cookies are becoming a threat to the users.
What did Google say?
Apart from this, Google saves the passwords of the users with the help of cookies so that they do not need to enter the password again the next time they login. But hackers have found a way to bypass two-factor authentication.
CloudSEK’s blog post states that, thanks to this new method of cyber crime, hackers will be able to use the Google account of the users even after resetting the password of the Google account. This report is alerting both about the big threat coming in the cyber world and the technical weaknesses of Google.
However, Google has said in its statement that it is constantly upgrading its security system to protect itself from such cyber threats, and is also using new technology for stronger security of the users. Let us tell you that Google has also announced blocking of third party cookies for Chrome browser, the benefit of which may start getting benefit to all the users in the coming few days.
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