Google Postmaster Tools v2 Added a Deliverability Analysis Checklist -- And the 0.3% Spam Rate Is Now a Kill Switch

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

For years, Google Postmaster Tools gave senders a reputation label – High, Medium, Low, or Bad – and left them to figure out what was causing the problem. The labels were opaque by design. You could watch your reputation slide from High to Medium and have no direct signal as to whether the culprit was your SPF configuration, your DKIM signing, your list quality, or something else entirely.

That model is gone. Google retired Postmaster Tools v1 in 2026, and in early June the company added a new Deliverability Analysis section to the Compliance Status page in v2. The new section replaces the reputation label system with an explicit compliance checklist. You can now see exactly which authentication requirement is failing, exactly where your spam rate sits relative to the thresholds that trigger enforcement, and exactly what is sending your mail to the spam folder or to outright rejection.

Google Filed a Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Phishing at Industrial Scale. Here Is What Every Domain Owner Should Do Now.

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

On June 12, 2026, Google filed a civil lawsuit against a China-based cybercrime network known as Outsider Enterprise. The complaint alleges that the group used Google’s own Gemini AI to generate phishing landing pages, then sent approximately 2.5 million fraudulent messages in a single two-week window in May 2026. The messages impersonated Google, YouTube, and the U.S. Postal Service. The operation generated roughly 55,000 spam complaints, left behind nearly 9,000 fake websites and more than one million fraudulent URLs, and is linked to the theft of approximately 3.87 million credit card numbers and an estimated $1.9 billion in losses dating back to July 2023.

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Google Postmaster Tools v2 Added a Deliverability Analysis Checklist -- And the 0.3% Spam Rate Is Now a Kill Switch

Google Filed a Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Phishing at Industrial Scale. Here Is What Every Domain Owner Should Do Now.