๐ Safe Browsing protection from even more deceptive attacks
๐ก Newskategorie: Video
๐ Quelle: feedproxy.google.com
Posted by Emily Schechter, Program Manager and Noé Lutz, Software Engineer
Safe Browsing has been protecting over one billion people from traditional phishing attacks on the web for more than eight years. The threat landscape is constantly changing—bad actors on the web are using more and different types of deceptive behavior to trick you into performing actions that you didn’t intend or want, so we’ve expanded protection to include social engineering.
Social engineering is a much broader category than traditional phishing and encompasses more types of deceptive web content. A social engineering attack happens when either:
- The content pretends to act, or looks and feels, like a trusted entity — like a bank or government.
- The content tries to trick you into doing something you’d only do for a trusted entity — like sharing a password or calling tech support.
Below are some examples of social engineering attacks that try to trick you into thinking the content is delivered by Google or Chrome. Other trusted brands are also commonly abused for social engineering attacks.