In the official company blog, Google Vice President Security (Engineering) Eric Grosse said, "We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users' accounts unauthorised...Today, we are taking that a step further for a subset of our users, who we believe may be the target of state-sponsored attacks".
Many Gmail users have seen a warning message in a pink coloured bar saying, "We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now."
"When we have specific intelligence
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