Pretty clever.

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Pretty clever. How do you fool people into clicking on your GMail change password phishing link by making it look like a legitimate Google link? Why, that’s simple: get Google to steal your brand by using AMP. In the process of subsuming your web presence they hide all your links behind a legitimate looking Google link shortening service.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/russian-hackers-are-using-googles-own-infrastructure-to-hack-gmail-users
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  2. I think the phishing email is surprisingly crappy for a supposedly high end attack. I know it worked on some people, but that doesn’t surprise me either. Some people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

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