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Google is retiring its Gmail Basic HTML view in January 2024

Google is notifying Gmail users that the webmail's Basic HTML view will be deprecated in January 2024, and users will require modern browsers to continue using the service.
- Bill Toulas
- September 25, 2023
- 12:08 PM
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Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing

Google is urging users to activate its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature via numerous alerts in Gmail that keep coming back, even after you acknowledge them.
- Mayank Parmar
- August 06, 2023
- 12:24 PM
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New Horabot campaign takes over victim's Gmail, Outlook accounts

A previously unknown campaign involving the Horabot botnet malware has targeted Spanish-speaking users in Latin America since at least November 2020, infecting them with a banking trojan and spam tool.
- Bill Toulas
- June 01, 2023
- 04:54 PM
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Google will delete accounts inactive for more than 2 years

Google has updated its policy for personal accounts across its services to allow a maximum period of inactivity of two years.
- Bill Toulas
- May 21, 2023
- 11:07 AM
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Google brings dark web monitoring to all U.S. Gmail users

Google announced today that all Gmail users in the United States will soon be able to use the dark web report security feature to discover if their email address has been found on the dark web.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 10, 2023
- 06:24 PM
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North Korean hackers using Chrome extensions to steal Gmail emails

A joint cybersecurity advisory from the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and the National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea (NIS) warn about Kimsuky's use of Chrome extensions to steal target's Gmail emails.
- Bill Toulas
- March 22, 2023
- 11:06 AM
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Google: Gmail client-side encryption now publicly available

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now generally available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 28, 2023
- 11:20 AM
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Google investigates Gmail IMAP sync issues affecting Outlook users

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 22, 2023
- 02:54 PM
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BleepingComputer's most popular cybersecurity stories of 2022

It was a big year for cybersecurity in 2022 with massive cyberattacks and data breaches, innovative phishing attacks, privacy concerns, and of course, zero-day vulnerabilities.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 02, 2023
- 09:05 AM
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Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web

Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 17, 2022
- 09:15 AM
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Learn to use Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail and more for just $41

It's the price that really makes the 2023 Complete Google Sheets and Docs Super Bundle such a no-brainer. In fact, you can enroll in this special training program for just $41, which works out to less than $3.50 per course.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- October 26, 2022
- 07:12 AM
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Google SMTP relay service abused for sending phishing emails

Phishing actors abuse Google's SMTP relay service to bypass email security products and successfully deliver malicious emails to targeted users.
- Bill Toulas
- May 02, 2022
- 01:51 PM
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Hackers exploit Microsoft MSHTML bug to steal Google, Instagram creds

A newly discovered Iranian threat actor is stealing Google and Instagram credentials belonging to Farsi-speaking targets worldwide using a new PowerShell-based stealer dubbed PowerShortShell by security researchers at SafeBreach Labs.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 24, 2021
- 01:42 PM
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Gmail accounts are used in 91% of all baiting email attacks

Bait attacks are on the rise, and it appears that actors who distribute this special kind of phishing emails prefer to use Gmail accounts to conduct their attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- November 11, 2021
- 03:32 AM
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Google warns 14,000 Gmail users targeted by Russian hackers

Google has warned about 14,000 of its users about being targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, a threat group that has been linked to Russia.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 07, 2021
- 07:38 PM
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Malicious Firefox extension allowed hackers to hijack Gmail accounts

Several Tibetan organizations were targeted in a cyber-espionage campaign by a state-backed hacking group using a malicious Firefox extension designed to hijack Gmail accounts and infect victims with malware.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 26, 2021
- 10:09 AM
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Google: Gmail users from US most targeted by phishing attacks

Google has revealed earlier this week that Gmail users from the United States are the most popular target for email-based phishing and malware attacks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 12, 2021
- 01:50 PM
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Google explains the cause of the recent YouTube, Gmail outage

Google says that the global authentication system outage which affected most consumer-facing series on Monday was caused by a bug in the automated quota management system impacting the Google User ID Service.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 19, 2020
- 11:30 AM
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Gmail hit by a second outage within a single day

Gmail is suffering its second outage in 24 hours, with users able to access their email but unable to send to other Gmail users or are experiencing unexpected behavior.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 15, 2020
- 05:34 PM
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Google outage affecting YouTube, Gmail and more

Google users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and possibly other Google services.
- Mayank Parmar
- December 14, 2020
- 07:04 AM
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