Google discovers over 18 million Covid-19 phishing emails per day

"In the past week, we discovered more than 18 million phishing emails and malware every day. This is just the tip of more than 240 million emails, spam messages per day related to stories, news pieces, or update data on the Covid-19 translation, "Google said.

Although Google's security team has blocked most of these emails, the company warns users to be extremely cautious as hackers are "trying to take advantage of the fear and uncertainty surrounding the Covid pandemic." -19 "from which to increase fraud, account hijacking, or personal information.

Some common and easy-to-catch scams include impersonating public health agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) to solicit people to donate donations to an anonymous account. list, or distribute malicious software. Hackers also often imitate government agencies to deceive businesses who are waiting for bailouts and have to operate at home due to isolation.

A phishing email, impersonating a government agency, was discovered and warned by Gmail.

Google says its protections today are primarily based on AI (artificial intelligence) technology that helps filter 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware.

The company also said it has worked with WHO in implementing message and domain authentication (abbreviated as DMARC) to make it more difficult for fraudsters to impersonate the World Health Organization, and redirect these emails to spam.

Further sharing, Google said most of the fraudulent methods discovered were not new, but were still effective due to exploiting the fear, and uncertainty of Internet users involved in the Covid-19 epidemic.

Therefore, more than ever, users should be alert, maintain alertness in receiving information, especially before emails, messages with unusual content.

Google also strongly recommends that Internet users not click on links in emails that you suspect or come from strange addresses. You should also take a closer look at the links to see if they are actually true, because most phishing links have a copy structure almost identical to the original.