[23187] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google is flooding the Internet with phishes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Sun Feb 22 18:47:03 2026
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:38:04 -0800
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
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Significantly more than half of the phishing attempts I see now come
from Google email servers (as proven by the top Received: header
line), typically Gmail. An even larger percentage of the payloads
(e.g. "click this link") for these -- closer to 75% these days --
point to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instances (e.g. via
googleapis.com). Google puts a lot of effort into detecting incoming
spam and phishes (with varying success) but has become a veritable
firehouse of such garbage sent to non-Gmail addresses.-L
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