The goal of our Chrome extension is to ensure that users do not fall prey to phishers out there.
WHAT IS PHISHING?
Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details, often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
156 MILLION PHISHING EMAILS EVERY DAY
Cyber criminals start their phishing trip by sending out millions of phishing emails.
16 MILLION MAKE IT THROUGH FILTERS
Many phishing emails end their journey destroyed in spam filters, but about 10% make it through.
8 MILLION ARE OPENED
Of those that make it through spam filters, half continue their journey by being opened by a user.
800,000 LINKS ARE CLICKED
Of those emails that are opened, 10% lure someone into clicking on a phishing link.
80,000 FALL FOR A SCAM EVERY DAY AND SHARE THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
And finally, another 10% of people who click the link are netted by the baited website. Their information results in stolen identities, financial loss, credit card frauds and other Internet scams. So in the end, these phishing emails hook about 80,000 victims. Not bad for a day's work.
What it does
Phat Phishes analyzes your current webpage to determine if the site is most likely a phishing site, or if it is a normal and safe webpage.
How we built it
It was built by researching different JavaScript libraries and trial and error to determine if they could give us the information that we needed.
Challenges we ran into
Your browser history is really hard to access...
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