Chrome Wants to Catch Scams Before You Paste the Damage Into Your Terminal
In brief On October 20, 2026, Google announced three additions to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode: a new two-tier site-warning system, server-side Gemini-powered scam detection, and clipboard inspection that warns you when you copy a dangerous ClickFix command. The new “suspicious site” warning covers lower-confidence verdicts — pages that look like scams but do not clear … Read more