Google Chrome Advanced Protection Program

Ο Chrome θα προστατεύει επιλεγμένους from dangerous downloads with the help of the Advanced Protection Program (or simply APP), which was originally launched by the company in 2017.

AAP's goal was to provide users with a high likelihood of becoming targets of cyberattacks, such as journalists, activists and politicians, in the arsenal necessary to remain protected when accessing their Google accounts.

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But if you look at how threats are evolving, 2017 seems to be a long way off. So Google is now expanding its program to include Google Chrome, stopping malicious downloads that could be used in complex cyber attacks.

"Advanced Protection Program users who have sync enabled in Chrome will automatically start having stronger protections against dangerous web downloads for files that contain malware. Advanced Protection users have already benefited from malware protection on the services of Gmail,” they said Shuvo Chatterjee, Product Manager, APP, and Kiran Nair, Product Manager, Chrome.

Advanced Protection Program

But the attackers have shifted their strategies to continue threatening Advanced Protection users, from emails to drive-by downloads, to unknowingly download harmful software to their devices.

Users using the program will begin to see a warning (shown in the image above) that a particular download is being "blocked by Advanced Protection".

So there will be options to discard the download or keep the file, with a "Learn more" message that will display additional information about the reasons why the download was blocked.

New δεν απαιτεί κάποια αλλαγή από την πλευρά του χρήστη, καθώς η λειτουργία ενεργοποιείται αυτόματα ανεξάρτητα από την πλατφόρμα στην οποία τρέχει ο Google Chrome.

On the other hand, what you need to do is enable browser synchronization to allow the Advanced Protection System to perform checks and block malicious downloads.

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