Google Says Gmail Now Blocks 99.9% of Spam and Phishing Emails

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Continuing its efforts to bring AI into every little product it has, Google announced today that improvements it made to Gmail's machine learning algorithms help it detect and block spam and phishing messages with an accuracy of 99.9%.

 

To put things into perspective, the company says spam messages account between 50% and 70% percent of emails Gmail users receive on a daily basis.

 

If let's say Gmail's security systems would go down for a day, you can only imagine the amount of spam a user's inbox would receive.

 

Blame it on Gmail's new AI systems

Google credits this huge improvement to new security systems that rely on machine learning to analyze and catalog emails as they arrive or leave a user's Gmail inbox.

 

In a series of four blog posts, Google also detailed a bunch of new security features it will be adding to Gmail in the following days. Here's a summary of all updates:

 

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⋙ Gmail will show a big fat warning inside the "Reply box" when a user is answering a user that's not part of his organization's domain, or that's not in the user's contacts list. This includes the reply-to address, but also CC and BCC fields. Google introduced this feature to prevent accidental replies to spear-phishing emails that arrive from unknown persons.

⋙ Gmail will add a delay of a few minutes to emails that match a known phishing pattern. Google says the delay will be up to 4 minutes, which is the amount of time its Safe Browsing technology needs to scan links included in the email.

⋙ Google says it now correlates spam signals with attachment and sender heuristics to predict messages containing new and unseen malware variants. Google says these improvements allow Gmail's AI system to better detect zero-day threats, ransomware, and polymorphic malware.

⋙ Gmail on Android will receive the same click-time warnings available for desktop users. These are intermediary screens that Google shows when it thinks users have clicked on a phishing link it didn't detect when the email was first received.

 

 

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[DKT27]

This is one thing I would give it to them. Not sure the last time I got any in my Gmail. Outlook on the other hand seems to like allowing them.

[steven36]

If you ever signed into Gmail with you're with you're real ip i would not recommend signing in via tor or vpn  because they can keep tabs on you ..back years ago i use to never use a vpn and i use too stay signed in too Gmail too get email notifications via my im  I never really had any problems  but once I started using a vpn in 2011 everytime i tried too sign in to them Gmail and Yahoo would lock my account and i would have to verify who i was so i stop using them.  I have 4 alternatives to Gmail now ..2 of them privacy based and 2 of them normal emails i made all of them using a VPN so they never have got my real ip before and i never been happier and they all respect my VPN . I never have any problem with spam because I don't give my emails out much if it's some kind of free giveaway i use a throwaway email and only i use my real emails for things that won't accept them and too talk too friends.

 

And those spam filters never had any sense noways if  it be something you wanted they put it in spam mail and let other crap get by so if there killing that much spam now they must be binning good mail as well because they use too even before they were killing much spam, long before it was in the News that all top web email providers had been hacked many times that alone makes these services not interesting too me. 

[straycat19]

17 hours ago, DKT27 said:

This is one thing I would give it to them. Not sure the last time I got any in my Gmail. Outlook on the other hand seems to like allowing them.

 

Gmail is definitely the best for filtering out spam.  I don't try to unsubscribe from any of it, just let the spam folder handle it.  Since they offered two factor authentication it makes it more secure.  Not only would someone have to steal my login data, but they would have to know which one of my phones to steal that the verification comes thru. 

 

But, like steven36 noted. they do track your IPs and devices, so they know when you log in from a different device or IP.