Microsoft launches the tool that uses automatic learning and artificial vision to detect scareware scams

Microsoft It has begun to try its ‘Scareware’ detector in the Microsoft Edge browser, a tool that blocks this type of scams and uses automatic learning (‘Machine Learning’) and artificial vision (‘Computer Vision’) to protect users while They navigate the Internet.

The company announced this solution last November, when it pointed out that the scams ‘online’ had become increasingly sophisticated and that, among the most frequent techniques, The so -called ‘Scareware’ had positioned himselfwhich could be translated as or ‘malware’ of fear.

It is a social engineering fraud that occupies the entire browser screen to create an emergency and panic sensation, which invites people to act quickly and “potentially gives the scammer remote access to your computer,” he explained then Microsoft.

The classic example of ‘Scareware’ is one that alerts the victim of the presence of a virus on his device and then tries Your website.

Often, these frauds are executed successfully before any preventive measure can be taken. For this reason, the firm began to introduce new free functions in Edge, thanks to which it could identify this Staff in real time.

To do this, the ‘Scareware’ blocker uses automatic learning (‘Machine Learning’), a technology that, finding a substantial danger, shows a warning to alert users. This It is combined with the so -called artificial vision, an AI that allows you to process images. If this technology identifies the websites as insurance, it will keep them on the screen so that users can continue to browse these websites.

Microsoft also indicated that, for organizations, the use of this blocker – which first was made available to some testers as part of a preliminary public version – would help prevent attacks executed with the intention of obtaining remote access.

This blocker has begun to be implemented in Edge and can be found in the ‘Privacy, Search and Services’ section, of the browser configuration tab, as the technology company has shared in a publication of its blog.

In the brief, Microsoft has also pointed out that the model runs locally, without saving or sending images to the cloud, to protect user information. He also advanced that, with the aim of reducing false alarms of allegedly fraudulent pages, he hopes to receive comments from users, who report when a blocker has made an error.

In this post, the firm has also indicated that this tool is complemented by Defender SmartScreenwhich provides Real -time checks Of new and unknown sites, so that, once it detects a fraudulent website, “it can protect users around the world in a matter of minutes.”