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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed's messages are getting blocked more because its methods of blasting email are increasingly way more spammy than that of ActBlue, the fundraising platform for Democrats.
The malicious ad tech purveyor known as VexTrio Viper has been observed developing several malicious apps that have been published on Apple and Google's official app storefronts under the guise of seemingly useful applications
With Android Scam Detection for messages and calls, Google wants to push scam detection further than traditional spam detection
Google has stepped in to clarify that a newly introduced Android System SafetyCore app does not perform any client-side scanning of content
An ongoing phishing scam is abusing Google Calendar invites and Google Drawings pages to steal credentials while bypassing spam filters. [...]
Spotify playlists and podcasts are being abused to push pirated software, game cheat codes, spam links, and "warez" sites. By injecting targeted keywords and links in playlist names and podcast descriptions, threat actors may benefit from boosting SEO for their dubious online properties appearing in Google. [...]
Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam
A clever disinformation campaign engages several Microsoft Azure and OVH cloud subdomains as well as Google search to promote malware and spam sites. [...]
What if it's not AI but the algorithm to blame? Opinion It was a bold claim by the richest and most famous tech founder: bold, precise and wrong. Laughably so. Twenty years ago, Bill Gates promised to rid the world of spam by 2006. How's that worked out for you?…
Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just might, hopefully, cut down on the amount of spam users receive.…
Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don't meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks. [...]
Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. [...]
Google has officially announced it's ceasing support for Usenet groups on its Google Groups platform, a move partly attributed to the platform's increasing struggle with spam content. [...]
Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail
Microsoft urged Microsoft 365 email senders this week to authenticate outbound messages following new anti-spam rules for bulk senders announced earlier this week by Google. [...]
Google will introduce new sender guidelines in February to bolster email security against phishing and malware delivery by mandating bulk senders to authenticate their emails and adhere to stricter spam thresholds [...]
Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million. [...]
Google Ads invites are being abused to deliver messages promoting spam and sex websites to users otherwise not necessarily using Google Ads or related products. [...]
Google Workspace's team is seeing a spike in phishing and spam hitting Gmail — up 10% in just the last two weeks.