{"id":23802,"date":"2020-04-17T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23802"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:31:06","slug":"google-says-18m-malicious-coronavirus-emails-sent-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23802","title":{"rendered":"Google says 18M malicious coronavirus emails sent daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google saw more than 18 million malware and phishing emails related to the novel coronavirus on its service per day last week, the company revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>That figure is in addition to the nearly 240 million coronavirus-related daily spam messages it sees.<\/p>\n<p>The malware and phishing attacks on Gmail &#8220;use both fear and financial incentives to create urgency to try to prompt users to respond,&#8221; the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Google shared examples of scammers posing as the World Health Organization (WHO) to &#8220;solicit fraudulent donations or distribute malware,&#8221; as administrators targeting employees working from home and as government agents trying to get information to process stimulus checks.<\/p>\n<p>The company says its machine learning software has been able to &#8220;block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google saw more than 18 million&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23803,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23802\/revisions\/23803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}