Google has updated Gmail spam filters to block out emails coming from addresses using suspicious combinations of Latin and non-Latin characters, the company said on Tuesday.
Google has updated Gmail spam filters to block out emails coming from addresses using suspicious combinations of Latin and non-Latin characters, the company said on Tuesday.
New standards opening email to non-Latin characters could signal the advent of new types of spam.
Scammers can mislead users with harmful messages that combine non-Latin characters, but Google announced that its Gmail anti-spam filters are ready for the new challenge. Non-Latin characters were not supported in Googles email service until last week, and with this, special precautions had to be taken in order to prevent abuse. Highly exploitable by scammers […]
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