Google takes on stronger measures to tackle covid related phishing emails

Gmail blocks over 100 million phishing emails and more than 240 million covid- 19 related spam messages on a typical day, as platform aggregator G-Suite finds more paying customers, it said in a recent blogpost. The covid-19 pandemic has opened floodgates for cybercriminals and hackers with an increasing number of phishing, malware scams hitting internet users.

In G Suite, advanced phishing and malware controls are turned on by default, ensuring that all G Suite users automatically have these proactive protections in place, the search engine giant said.

“Incident management is a key aspect of Google’s over security and privacy program and is key to complying with global privacy regulations such as GDPR.