October 26, 2026, 7:03 am | Read time: 2 minutes
Phishing sites are increasingly convincing and not always recognized as threats in time. Google is responding with enhanced protection for Chrome: Additional AI features are set to improve the expanded Safe Browsing mode.
Chrome Detects Phishing Sites
As Google announced in its official blog, Chrome will now warn users when a website shows typical signs of fraud but is not yet clearly deemed dangerous. Instead of the familiar red warning page, a pop-up will appear in such cases. For this assessment, Google uses a server-side Gemini model. The data is processed on Google servers, not locally on the PC. Gemini analyzes, among other things, the displayed brands and attempts to assess the suspected intent of a website.
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Together with the trustworthiness of the accessed web domain and other security signals, Safe Browsing aims to evaluate the threat situation and weigh the likelihood of a fraud attempt. According to Google, transmitted page content is not stored and not used for model training.
Chrome Also Detects ClickFix Tricks
Google’s enhanced Safe Browsing protection is also designed to detect so-called ClickFix attacks. In these, scammers try to persuade users to copy and execute commands under the guise of fixing a computer problem.
If a user copies a suspicious command, Chrome analyzes it. Before this, the Safe Browsing mode removes personal information from the transmitted data. If Chrome detects a threat, a warning will appear. Google is currently rolling out these updates for the browser.