Ammon News - Google has confirmed a 'sophisticated' attack on 1.8 billion Gmail users' data, prompting the tech giant to issue an urgent warning.

The phishing scam was first reported by Nick Johnson, a developer for the cryptocurrency platform Ethereum.

'Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack,' Johnson posted on X Wednesday.

'It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more,' he said.

Johnson shared a screenshot of the email he received, which appeared to come from a legitimate Google address and said he had been served with a subpoena for his Google account, which would require him to hand over access.

'The only hint it's a phish is that it's hosted on sites.google.com instead of accounts.google.com,' Johnson said.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, a Google spokesperson said: 'We're aware of this class of targeted attack from this threat actor and have rolled out protections to shut down this avenue for abuse.

'In the meantime, we encourage users to adopt two-factor authentication and passkeys, which provide strong protection against these kinds of phishing campaigns.' Daily Mail