Five years ago, Google started a “Safe Browsing” initiative to track down malicious content across the Web. On Tuesday, the company shared some of the insights it gleaned during the cleanup job.
It said — no surprises here — that cybercriminals are getting faster and more creative.
The Internet has long been plagued by “phishing” schemes in which criminals try to trick users into clicking on malicious links that allow them to scoop up a user’s banking credentials or send spam from their machines.