Security News > 2020 > February > Google Boosts Detection of Malicious Documents in Gmail
New scanning capabilities that Google rolled out to Gmail have resulted in an increased overall detection rate of malicious documents.
Of the detected malicious documents, 63% differ from day to day, and the Internet search giant has deployed a new generation of document scanners to improve its detection capabilities via deep learning.
Since the end of 2019, the new scanners have already helped increase the daily detection of Office documents containing malicious scripts by 10%, Google says.
With malicious documents representing 58% of the malware targeting Gmail users, Google is focused on further improving its document detection capabilities.
"Our new scanner runs in parallel with existing detection capabilities, all of which contribute to the final verdict of our decision engine to block a malicious document. Combining different scanners is one of the cornerstones of our defense-in-depth approach to help protect users and ensure our detection system is resilient to adversarial attacks," Google concludes.