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Google Launches New Maps Feature to Help Businesses Report Review-Based Extortion Attempts


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2025-11-07 09:57:58
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Google on Thursday said it's rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments.
The approach is designed to tackle a common practice called review bombing, where online users intentionally post negative user reviews in an



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/google-launches-new-maps-feature-to.html


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