Google shares how it prevents your account from getting hacked

Google’ Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has given some fresh information and stats on what it is doing to safeguarding end users from phishing scams and zero-day vulnerabilities. The team states that last year it sent almost 40,000 warnings to people, making them aware that their accounts are possible targets of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. However, this was a 25% decline from 2018. As per Google, the reason for decline is that its new protections are working.

As per the metric shared by the company, India was among those countries that was targeted the most by government-backed phishing scams last year. Other countries included the US, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Phishing trend in 2020