WebShield.AI is an AI-powered browser extension

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<h3>Automatic Phishing Detection</h3>WebShield.AI is a powerful Chrome extension designed to protect you from phishing websites as you browse the internet. With a proactive approach, it scans URLs, checks global threat databases, analyzes page content, and utilizes a trained machine learning model to identify malicious sites in real-time.<ul><li>Four-Layer Detection Pipeline:<ul><li>Layer 1 — URL Intelligence: Analyzes URL structure for suspicious patterns, lookalike domains, and misleading subdomains.</li><li>Layer 2 — Global Threat Reputation: Cross-references sites against Google Safe Browsing and PhishTank for immediate threat assessment.</li><li>Layer 3 — Live Content Analysis: Fetches and examines page content for fake login forms and credential harvesting patterns.</li><li>Layer 4 — Machine Learning Model: Employs a trained RandomForest classifier to score URLs based on numerous features.</li></ul></li><li>Real-Time Warning Banners: When a phishing site is detected, a prominent red banner appears on the page, explaining the reason for the flag and providing a quick escape route.</li><li>User-Friendly Interface: Features a live badge on the extension icon indicating the site's safety status (safe, suspicious, or phishing), a risk score, and specific flags that triggered the alert.</li><li>Privacy-Focused: Only sends the URL of the visited page for analysis, ensuring that cookies, history, and personal data remain private.</li><li>Lightweight Performance: Designed to have no noticeable impact on browsing speed, with background scans, smart debouncing, and a 30-minute cache for recently visited sites.</li></ul>WebShield.AI is ideal for anyone who shops, banks, or logs into accounts online, receives links via various communication channels, or simply wants an extra layer of security while browsing the web.