Fake MFA Reset Warning Message
KnowBe4, Friday, June 6th, 2025
A KnowBe4 co-worker of mine recently got this SMS phishing message (i.e., smish). They quickly identified it as a social engineering attack and shared it on our internal communication channel for sharing such things.
I have had more and more of these types of similar smishes occurring over the last few months. It is an attempt to trick someone into worrying that their Gemini, Gmail, Microsoft, Instagram.or whatever account.is in the middle of being compromised and you need to react NOW! NOW! NOW! to prevent it from being taken over.