India, April 23 -- There was a major scare recently involving Gmail and emails in general, after a new phishing scam was brought to light. Developer Nick Johnson reported that scammers were using extremely sophisticated phishing attacks to generate official-looking emails, which appeared to originate directly from Google.

This issue stemmed from Google's legacy products, where hackers exploited content hosting on a Google subdomain that supported arbitrary scripts and embeds. They were able to create a Google account intended to scam users. The attackers then created a Google OAuth application and generated a security alert, which was sent directly to users' inboxes.

Google confirmed in a statement to Newsweek that it was working on a f...