Chrome today announced the latest features for Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. Google says this mode makes users ten times safer from phishing, social engineering, notification abuse, and other scams compared to Standard Protection.
Chrome is adding suspicious site warnings in the address bar “when a page exhibits deceptive patterns commonly associated with known malicious sites.” There are two tiers:
- Suspicious sites (lower confidence verdict, possible risk of user harm)
- Dangerous sites (high confidence verdict, high risk of user harm)
Suspicious sites (above) will trigger a shield icon in the Omnibox, with a dialog box letting you “Mark as safe” or go “Back to safety.”
Dangerous site alerts (below) will continue to appear as a “full-page red interstitial warning.”
Meanwhile, Chrome is continuing to boost scam detection by leveraging Gemini models in the cloud after using on-device approaches. This protects Enhanced Protection users from a broader range of threats, including fake antivirus and browser update scams.
This model evaluates page content to analyze key indicators, such as the brand represented, the intent of the page, and a scam likeliness score, giving us rich t...