Distributing malware by attaching tainted documents to emails is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It's not just a theoretical risk—real attackers use malicious documents to infect targets all the ...

Thanks to its ubiquity via Google's other services, Gmail accounts have become prime targets for malicious or even illegal activities. It isn't just spam or phishing scams either, as emails can also ...

Google is improving its malware detection capabilities for Gmail with the addition of deep learning to its document scanner. The new technology is currently used to scan Office documents only for now.