Gmail has new security tricks to block malware emails

Starting this week, the company will flag any email senders that can’t be authenticated. In practice, you’ll see a question mark in place of the sender’s profile photo, corporate logo, or avatar. That should help you tell the difference between actual emails from companies and financial institutions and hackers who try to impersonate them to steal login credentials via sophisticated phishing scams. Here’s how that question mark should look like:


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The feature will be rolled out gradually to web users and on Android, Google said in a blog post.
Additionally, the web Gmail version is getting one more security feature that should prevent you from opening known malicious web addresses. The warning below will appear every time you try clicking on a malicious link and are an extension of the Safe Browsing protection that’s already built into web browsers.


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