By Zak Doffman
Publication Date: 2025-12-09 16:55:00
Beware this message — it’s an account hack.
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Updated on Dec. 9 with another message attack now targeting users.
America’s cyber defense agency now warns Google, Microsoft and Apple users to secure their accounts — change passwords, remove SMS two-factor authentication and add passkeys. But hackers are quickly evolving their attacks. Even a message from Google, Apple or Microsoft may be an attack, as hackers target your accounts.
Apple warns attacks now use “sophisticated tactics to persuade you to hand over personal details such as sign-in credentials (and) security codes.” Last month, these tactics made headlines, with hackers triggering automated Apple security messages at the same time as calling the target, pretending to be from Apple Support.
Google Account holders face the same threats. One Redditor has just asked how an attacker can “send Google…



