As you know Phishing is a form of Social engineering used by hackers to steal accounts. The most common way is that hackers will create a fake website with an interface similar to the real website. Then trick users into logging into the fake website to get passwords and accounts. The targets are often bank accounts, Internet Banking, valuable Game accounts, Facebook… Currently, Google has released a Phishing detection feature on Google Chrome to help you be safer.
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Phishing Detection Feature on Google Chrome
Google has released a new feature to help you avoid Phishing that sends the URLs of less popular websites to Google. The Google Chrome browser has a technology called Safe Browsing that checks each URL visited against a list of phishing websites that Google has collected. For privacy reasons, this check is performed without the user's computer being open. The list is updated every 30 minutes.
Every day, “Safe Browsing” discovers thousands of new unsafe websites and adds them to its blacklist. The list is updated approximately every 30 minutes. Chrome checks the URL of every website you visit or file you download against this list. If you visit a new URL, Chrome checks the first 32-bit SHA-256 hash of the URL and compares it to Google’s list.
This measure can check visited URLs in real time to detect Phishing. When a Chrome user visits a website, the browser checks to see if the address is on the Safe Websites list, which is a list of thousands of websites that Google has confirmed are safe. If the website you visit is not on Google's safe list, Chrome will send the address to Google and warn the user that it is a Phishing site.
You need to manually enable Phishing detection option on Google Chrome.
Enable Real-time phishing protection in Chrome
To limit Phishing, enable Chrome's real-time Phishing protection feature. Do the following:
Open Google Chrome, in the top right corner click on the 3 vertical dots. Open SettingLeft menu select EverybodyRight menu select Sync and Google services.
Scroll down to find the feature Helps improve Chrome's security and turn it on. For privacy reasons, Chrome does not enable this feature by default. Therefore, to ensure security and avoid Phishing, you should switch the Phishing detection mode on Google Chrome to ON (blue) to be safe.
