Google Chat will now warn you with a huge red banner about hypothetical scam links

Cybercriminals use popular apps like Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp to distribute as much malware as possible and then steal user information.

Typically, this malware usually comes from links that users, out of ignorance and curiosity, end up clicking, and which install various viruses on their devices.

However, Google has been warning us for years about this type of phishing link that we can get on many of their services, especially Gmail, where you’ve probably seen them more than once.

And the thing is, when we receive a suspicious email in Gmail containing any link, the mail client notifies us of it. with a red banner over the sender of the message so that we can verify its veracity.

Curiously, this red banner also appears on other Google services such as Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, and now it also reaches Google Chat, according to Android Police comments.

And this is what, in the next few days, if you are a Google Chat user and receive some kind of invitation to talk or someone sends you a certain link, you can get a huge red banner at the bottom of the window warning you thatthis conversation contains links to known phishing sites that will try to steal your information“.

Thus, the user has two options: on the one hand, block the sender so that he does not send us more links and so that we do not talk to this person, or directly “accept anyway” if we think this is a mistake.

Please note that this add-on is part of the latest update to Google Chat, which is being rolled out in stages, so it may take up to two weeks to receive it.

This new security feature will be available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers, and those using personal Google Accounts.

If you are concerned about these types of warnings, you can disable this feature, but we advise you to leave it enabled as it is set by default.