Scammers never stop finding new tricks and their latest target is Google users. Fake emails that look exactly like Google’s official security alerts are now being used to steal people’s passwords.

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. Every year, the company releases its password table, which displays the time needed to ...

News Google advises users to stop using passwords, make these changes as latest hacking scams grow Published: Jun. 04, 2025, 11:02 a.m.