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:
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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