Dangerous new one-click Gmail hack puts your private data at risk

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A new Gmail hack making the rounds can compromise your computer if you download the attachment and click on the file just once.

Last week, Trustwave senior security researcher Diana Lopera

If your extract the contents of request.doc and execute either file, the attackers could gain access to your device and begin stealing your private data.CHM is a proprietary help file format that Microsoft uses for software documentation. If you execute the CHM file, Microsoft Help Viewer will load the primary object of the file. That may not sound all that dangerous, and it usually isn’t. The problem is that this particular file has code lurking within that can silently run the app.

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