If you accidentally clicked on the Google phishing attack
and gave spammers third-party access to your Google account, you can revoke their access by following these steps:
Revoke access to “Google Docs” (the app will have access to contacts and drive).
Spammers, cybercriminals and, increasingly, nation-state spies are resorting to basic email attacks, known as spear phishing, which bait victims into clicking on links
that download malicious software, or lure them into turning over their user names and passwords.
Email Attack Hits Google: What to Do if You Clicked -
By NICOLE PERLROTHMAY 3, 2017
Google said it was investigating an email scam winding its way through inboxes across the country
and had disabled the accounts responsible for the spam.
A quarter of phishing attacks studied last year by Verizon were found to be nation-state spies trying
to gain entry into their target’s inboxes, up from the 9 percent of attacks reported in 2016.
In a second statement, on Wednesday evening, Google said
that it had disabled the accounts responsible for the spam, updated its systems to block it and was working on ways to prevent such an attack from recurring.