Google spoke about the main ways of combating phishing attacks

A major phishing attack on Gmail users via Google Docs, which occurred on may 3, was extremely dangerous for many users. Recently, Google has tried to reassure its customers and said the company is responding to this method of electronic fraud and plans to prevent similar incidents.

How Google fights phishing?

Protection Gmail has been further improved by more careful monitoring of signing in to Google services via third party applications. So the attack worked via Docs is the cloud office Suite users to log in with a fake program which has requested the username and password of your Google account. Also added advanced spam filtering. In addition, the company already has a number of measures to combat phishing fraud detection based on machine learning mode, Safe Browsing, scanning e-mail attachments, and additional security measures when suspicious sign-in to Google services.

Additionally, Google stresses that the last attack did not cause much damage – it hurt less than 0.1 percent of users. But even such a small part of the Google user base represents a huge number of accounts which were attacked. Enhanced measures to combat phishing, will be vital to prevent another dangerous situation.

Source: Google Security Blog

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