During Q1 we continued to see abuse of the Gmail name by spammers who use fake Gmail addresses in their emails. The Q1 2010 trend report analyzes the percentage of spam that actually does emanate from Gmail.
Other highlights from the Q1 Trend Report include:
Spam levels averaged 83% of all email traffic throughout the quarter
An average [...]
The Commtouch detection center has confirmed that an email I received yesterday on one of my private accounts was part of a mass phishing attack aimed at Blogger (and Google) users. In this case I suspected it was a phishing email before opening it since I received it via an email address that is not [...]
Commtouch Labs alerted me today to a very convincing Gmail phishing scam. The scam was so convincing, that I had to open the REAL Gmail log-in page and flip back and forth to compare the inconsistencies.
Check it out…
This is the fake Gmail log-in page, built to trick people into entering their username and password.
Once entered, [...]
Gmail users have been treated to a fairly strong track record of spamless inboxes thanks to Gmail’s filtering methods. Every now and then, maybe they’d miss one…or maybe they’d falsely mark a legitimate email as spam…but for the most part, Gmail users have been spared large amounts of spam cluttering their inboxes.
Over the last four [...]
Trying to log in to your Chinese Gmail or Yahoo! webmail? Check carefully…. over the past few days phishers have spread a broad attack trying to entice users to give up their credentials to a fake login page for Google and Yahoo-reminiscent addresses, with a .cn (China) domain. Examples include (and there are dozens of [...]
It’s not nice to talk about the performance of other anti-spam engines, but this false positive is just too cute to ignore. One our engineers pointed out to me how ironic it was that Gmail had blocked two of his google news alerts as spam! Google being Google, I’m sure it’s just a small, temporary [...]
