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Google is rolling out new warning banners in Google Drive to alert users of potentially suspicious files that threat actors could use for malware delivery and in phishing attacks. "If a user opens a potentially suspicious or dangerous file in Google Drive, we will display a warning banner to help protect them and their organization from malware, phishing, and ransomware," Google explains.

Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement. One of the files in Dolson's Google Drive, 'output04.

Google has announced on Thursday that it has started warning users when they open potentially suspicious or dangerous files hosted on Google Drive. "We will display a warning banner to help protect [users] and their organization from malware, phishing and ransomware. These warnings are already available when opening Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings," Google noted.

Google Drive ended 2021 as the most abused cloud storage service for malware downloads, according to security provider Netskope. In its "January 2022 Cloud and Threat Report" released Tuesday, Netskope noted that cloud storage apps gained even greater adoption in 2021.

Facebook's WhatsApp on Friday said users will soon be able to store end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history on Google Drive in Android or Apple iCloud in iOS, with an option to self-manage the encryption key. "We're adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud," said Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg in a missive on his platform.

Google this week announced a security update for Google Drive that is meant to make sharing links more secure for files stored with the service. "Once the update has been applied to a file, users who haven't viewed the file before will have to use a URL containing the resource key to gain access, and those who have viewed the file before or have direct access will not need the resource key to access the file," Google said in a note accompanying the update.

An upcoming security update for Google Drive will increase the security of your shared documents but likely break many of your shared links. Yesterday, Google began emailing Google Workspace admins about a new security update for Google Drive rolling out on September 13th, 2021, to make file sharing more secure.

Scammers are leveraging a legitimate Google Drive collaboration feature to trick users into clicking on malicious links. According to reports,, the recent attack stems from Google Drive's legitimate collaboration feature, which allows users to create push notifications or emails that invite people to share a Google doc.

An unpatched security weakness in Google Drive could be exploited by malware attackers to distribute malicious files disguised as legitimate documents or images, enabling bad actors to perform spear-phishing attacks comparatively with a high success rate. The latest security issue-of which Google is aware but left unpatched-resides in the "Manage versions" functionality offered by Google Drive that allows users to upload and manage different versions of a file, as well as in the way its interface provides a new version of the files to the users.