Google today announced that the Google Safe Browsing service, which was first released for 2007, protects more than 3 billion devices. The number surpassed the 2 billions that the company said it protected in May of 2016.
Safe Browsing provides lists of URLs that contain malware or phishing content (Phishing) in Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers, as well as Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
The service can also be accessed through one public API or directly by manually checking from this URL any site you want. OR Google has extended Safe Browsing to the various products της με τα χρόνια, όπως το Android, τις advertisements, Analytics, Gmail, Google Play, etc.
It should be mentioned that most of the time, Safe Browsing protects users without blocking them. This means that you simply do not see any malicious ones Results search engine, Android apps in Google Play, questionable messages in Gmail etc because they are just filtered. Other times, you present a placeholder action, like the one pictured below (on mobile):
You see the image above on pages that try to get you to install malware or download some other unwanted software. They are automatically blocked in Chrome, Firefox and Safari, although you can view the site manually if you wish. Web developers and app developers (such as Snapchat) integrate Google Safe Browsing into their apps to check URLs before they are presented to their users.
As for AI, Google Safe Browsing has been using mechanical learning for many years to detect various types of threats.
Google did not elaborate on how the project would evolve, but noted that the service had to tackle today's "web" and that the team was "constantly evaluating and integrating new approaches to improving Safe Browsing".