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To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.
I constantly receive the same kind of gmail spam: there's a package for me. Half a year already, 3-4 a day, from random addresses like rp.6sgzBKV9UH@mail.4t2d3uxkxo.com / over corpegg.com whatever that is.
The crazy thing is that on the last year I found emails from Google, and Apple, in the spam folder. Apple's were invoices... of which I get a couple a month (iTunes purchases, subscriptions). Google's I think were announcements for services, etc. tied to a Workspaces work account. I can't think of no actions I did (in terms of identifying email as spam) that could suggest I might consider emails from Google or Apple,…
For me, it just goes in cycles. For a couple of weeks, I'll get these spam emails from "Dick's Sporting Goods" telling me I won a chance at a Yeti cooler or something like that. These emails will make it through gmail's filter for a while, then they catch them, then they figure out how to get through again. That particular set of emails seems to be the only spam that ever makes it through the filter, but the cycle ha…
To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.
Google's mail servers have been compromised for several weeks now. It's commonly being used for infected crypto spam (all those "new traderbot" emails with the attached infected PDF, for example). I'm not yet sure if these are just compromised GMail accounts, or if the mail servers themselves have been compromised. There seem to be some reports on AbuseIPDB of intrusion attempts coming directly from Google's mail servers.
I've tried reporting it to Google (eg via SpamCop), and Google declines to receive reports. I have been reporting it through AbuseIPDB as well. Here is one Google mail server that has had over 300 abuse reports:
https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/209.85.167.48
There are many more, and I linked to a few more when I posted about it here on HN over a month ago:
The spam is quite likely coming via Google itself. Google's mail servers have been compromised for several weeks now. It's commonly being used for infected crypto spam (all those "new traderbot" emails with the attached infected PDF, for example). I'm not yet sure if these are just compromised GMail accounts, or if the mail servers themselves have been compromised. There seem to be some reports on AbuseIPDB of intrus…