The FBI has warned people who use Google’s Gmail about a dangerous ransomware scheme. More than 1.8 billion people could be at risk from hackers who hold your private data hostage if you make this one easy mistake.

The FBI, MS-ISAC and CISA released a joint cybersecurity advisory about the Medusa ransomware variant, advising people and organizations to use multifactor authentication and other strategies to prevent attacks from the ransomware-as-a-service provider that has targeted hundreds since 2021.

The FBI has lately issued warnings about some of the most advanced ransomware attacks ever against Gmail users, as well