The holiday season means a lot of things: pumpkin spice, mall Santas, Mariah Carey singing, porch pirates and, of course, a surge in scams, spam, phishing and malware. Just as you get busy buying stocking stuffers and tinsel, threat actors get busy trying to break into your email inbox with scam emails, phishing attacks and spam intended to trick you into releasing personal information.
Google has just released details on the features it deployed this year, which resulted in 35% fewer scams being reported from its 2.5 billion users. That means fewer phishing and malware scams are hitting inboxes.
