{"id":948743,"date":"2025-07-22T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948743"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:58:39","slug":"gmail-users-may-be-at-risk-of-being-scammed-by-cybercriminals-using-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/gmail-users-may-be-at-risk-of-being-scammed-by-cybercriminals-using-gemini\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail users may be at risk of being scammed by cybercriminals using Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new cyber threat is making its way into Gmail inboxes, and this time it involves Gemini, Google\u2019s built-in AI assistant. Security researchers have identified a method where attackers manipulate Gemini into displaying false warnings, tricking users into giving away sensitive information. It is a clever tactic and one that highlights the growing concerns around AI misuse.<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of this scam is a technique known as prompt injection. Attackers are embedding invisible instructions within email messages by using white text and zero font size. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cyber threat is making its way into Gmail inboxes, and this time it involves Gemini, Google\u2019s built-in AI assistant. Security researchers have identified a method where attackers manipulate Gemini into displaying false warnings, tricking users into giving away sensitive information. It is a clever tactic and one that highlights the growing concerns around AI misuse. At the centre of this scam is a technique known as prompt injection. Attackers are embedding invisible instructions within email messages by using white text and zero font size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}