Google Chrome Uses Advanced AI to Combat Sophisticated Online Scams

Google has integrated artificial intelligence into its cybersecurity toolkit to shield users from financial and data theft scams.

On Friday, May 09, 2025, the company unveiled a comprehensive report detailing its latest AI-driven initiatives across Search, Chrome, and Android, marking a significant leap in preemptive threat detection and user protection.

These advancements aim to counteract increasingly sophisticated scams, from phishing sites to malicious notifications and fraudulent communications.

Google’s Search engine now blocks hundreds of millions of scam-related results daily, a 20-fold increase in detected malicious pages compared to previous systems.

This improvement stems from enhancements in AI classifiers capable of analyzing vast web content datasets, identifying emerging scam patterns, and neutralizing coordinated campaigns.

For instance, the report highlights a surge in fake airline customer service portals designed to steal payment details.

By training models on linguistic cues and behavioral metrics, Google reduced these scams by 80% in Search results ...