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Google integrates an Chrome AI that detects online scams in real time, blocks suspicious websites, and protects your phone without compromising your privacy.
Online scams continue to be a serious problem for millions of users. That’s why Google has decided to take digital protection to the next level with a new tool based on artificial intelligence. Google Chrome, its popular browser, now incorporates Gemini Nano., an AI designed to identify deceptive websites and fraud.
This advancement is integrated into its already established security features, such as Enhanced Safe Navigation.
The most important novelty is that this AI does not need to send data to servers to do its job. It works directly on the device, speeding up the detection of malicious pages and protecting user privacy.
Chrome AI is now capable of detecting in real time deception attempts that mimic security warnings or fake viruses that pretend to scare to steal information or money.
How Chrome AI works against fraudulent sites
Gemini Nano analyzes the behavior of web pages in real-time. If it detects suspicious patterns, such as aggressive pop-ups or messages that pretend to be system alerts, the system issues a warning to the user.
This notification includes the name of the website and a clear message about its dangerousness. In addition, you are given the option to block it or, if it is a bug, add it to a whitelist.
This system has been trained to recognize common strategies in online scams, especially those that masquerade as technical support. Those pages that display messages such as “Your phone is infected” or “Call this number to unlock the device” are now in Chrome’s crosshairs.
“We’ve found that an average malicious site exists for less than 10 minutes, so on-device protection allows us to detect and block attacks that haven’t been previously tracked,” Google says, according to Digital Trends.
Thanks to this AI, the browser can react even if it is a completely new threat, since the evaluation is made from the user’s own perspective.
Until now, browser security depended on an external database, such as lists of previously identified malicious sites. But this had a problem: many fraudulent websites last less than ten minutes before disappearing.
With Gemini Nano working from the device, the website no longer needs to be blacklisted for the system to detect. Local analysis allows you to block scams that have not even been reported yet.
In addition, this approach eliminates the need to constantly send data to Google’s servers, which reinforces privacy. Only minimal data is shared, and the user retains full control over which sites they want to allow or block.
Who will be able to use this protection first?
In its initial release, the new feature will be available only on Android devices. According to Google, most scam attempts through notifications occur on mobiles, so this is the first battlefront. However, they have already confirmed that they are exploring how to bring this technology to other platforms, such as computers and tablets.
For now, no specific technical requirements have been announced, but the tool is expected to arrive later this year as part of an automatic browser update.
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