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Password management service Dashlane is rolling out a new AI-powered security feature that alerts users about potential phishing sites in real time.
Scam Protection works even when you haven’t saved login credentials for a website. The AI model analyzes 79 elements of a web page, including URL, external links, and hidden images, to determine whether the page is malicious and deliver alerts before you request autofill details.
(Credit: Dashlane)This approach is meant to stop you from entering credit card details on fraudulent shopping websites, creating user accounts on dummy sites, or sharing personal information on malicious job portals. In one recent scam, for example, attackers used a typo-squatting trick to replace the letter "m" in Microsoft and Marriott with "rn" (letters r and n) to make their fake websites appear legitimate. Attacks like these are only expected to escalate with the rise of AI.
“Scam Protection brings users peace of mind as a specially trained digital detective that spots what humans can’t, stepping in and alerting busy people who, naturally, are not vigilantly checking every site they visit,” says Christophe Frenet, Dashlane’s chief product officer.
All of Dashlane’s Scam Protection activities are processed on the user’s device. The company claims it doesn’t let user data leave the device or use it to train its own AI model.
The feature is enabled by default for all users on the Premium plan ($4.99 a month) and the Friends & Family plan ($7.49 a month). Dashlane dropped its free tier in September.