Surfshark’s new AI feature weeds out phishing emails

Targeted phishing emails may be a thing of the past Surfshark’s One and One Plus Package subscribers. Surfshark is VPN and cybersecurity company Which offers packages that include various privacy and security tools. It’s now adding a phishing email screening tool that filters out phishing attacks from Gmail subscribers’ inboxes.

The new AI tool has been trained to analyze emails for signs of tampering. The company announced on Mondayincluding suspicious content, sender information, and other common characteristics of Phishing attempts. It also scans links in the email copy to check for potential malware.

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The new tool is currently available for Google Chrome and Gmail, as it is tied to the latest update to the Surfshark Chrome browser extension. The feature is not available in non-Chrome browsers.

A Surfshark representative did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

How to use Surfshark’s new AI-powered fraud email checker

To use the new Surfshark tool, you need an active Surfshark One or One Plus subscription (Starts at $59 for 27 months) and the Surfshark Chrome browser extension installed on your device.

Once installed, access the extension settings and enable the new tool in the Fraud Email Checker tab. This will allow you to use the feature in your Gmail account.

You’ll see a Verify Email button when you open a suspicious email within Chrome. Clicking that will launch our AI-based fraud email checker and filter out phishing and malware attempts.

Surfshark currently allows an unlimited number of devices to be linked to a single account, so you can share this tool with your friends and family.

In it Blog post about the new toolThe company says that all data filtered through the email fraud checker is briefly stored on internal servers. Nothing is exported to “external platforms that may use the data to train AI.”

Surfshark says it deletes your data after the fraud checker request is complete.