Google Drive will alert you to suspicious files

Google Drive is a very handy tool for storing and sharing files, which is used by millions of individuals and businesses around the world. With such a function, however, she is, of course, at risk of being able to do so for her unfair practices various cyber-attackers can also be used. A moment of inattention can then lead to the user being successfully attacked by phishing (hunting of login or bank data) or ransomware (data encryption with subsequent blackmail). These potential attacks will now be preceded by Google Drive actively warn – through alerts on suspicious files.

This is a yellow banner that will appear at the top of the screen when internal filters detect a potentially dangerous infected file. At this point, the tool can evaluate text Documents, Tables, Presentations and Drawings. The news for Google Drive was officially released on January 20 and should be headed to within fifteen days to all Workspace users including those who use G Suite Basic.

How many times have you encountered an attack via Google Drive?

Zdroj: Google