Google can’t say “mission accomplished” just yet, but the search giant made it clear that the Internet is winning its decade-old war against phishing and spam emails.
In a blog post published Friday, Google said the Internet-wide efforts against unauthenticated emails, which can be used by spammers and phishers to fake email addresses and deceive users, are working. In fact, the vast majority of non-spam email that Gmail users receive is authenticated with standards designed to fight phishing.
“91.4% of non-spam emails sent to Gmail users come from authenticated senders, which helps Gmail filter billions of impersonating email messages a year from entering our users’ inboxes,” Google security researchers Elie Bursztein and Vijay Eranti said in the post Read more…
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