Google yesterday announced that its latest Chrome release adds real-time phishing alerts and password breach warning capabilities to the browser.
The real-time anti-phishing capabilities represents an upgrade to Google’s Safe Browsing service, which compiles an ever-changing blacklist of dangerous websites that browsers can check against.
Typically, when a Chrome user visits a website, the browser checks the URL against a locally stored version of the Safe Browsing list, which is updated every half hour. However, Google says some malicious actors have been able to circumvent this protection by quickly switching domains and hiding from the company’s crawlers.
But Chrome’s real-time phishing detection abilities will crack down on such evasive measures. Whenever a user visits a web page, this service will check the URL against a locally stored list of safe sites. If a URL isn’t on the whitelist, Chrome will then check with Google to see if the site is dangerous. “Our analysis has shown that this results in a 30% increase in protections by warning users on malicious sites that are brand new,” states a Google blog post written by Chrome Team members Patrick Nepper, Kiran Nair, Vasilii Sukhanov and Varun Kh ..
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