In fact, Google claims to have seen a “massive surge in email traffic compared to previous months” since mid-November, making safeguarding your Gmail inboxes a “greater challenge than normal.”
Google itself claims that Gmail has over 2.5 billion users, making it an obvious target for hackers. Google takes the security of those inboxes very seriously.
“We make significant investments to fulfill this obligation, preventing over 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware in Gmail,” Wen said.
Wen said in a recently released blog post that compared to 2023, Gmail users reported a third fewer frauds during the first month of the Christmas season.
Which includes both phishing and malware by this definition. According to Wen, “millions more unsolicited and potentially harmful messages were blocked before they even reached inboxes.”
Here are the steps Google took to safeguard those Gmail users, as well as the dangers it has alerted you about as 2024 comes to an end.
