Stingray Security Chrome Extension - In-browser A.I. protection from online threats - all free
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Stingray Security is a powerful Chrome extension that uses advanced in-browser AI to detect and block phishing websites, fake crypto platforms, and other malicious scams in real time.
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Hello world!
Is that link safe? Hover over the link in your email. Stingray will let you know if it's safe, suspicious, or a big risk.
Did you end up on a risky website? Stingray will flag sensitive fields like passwords and credit card forms, warning you of dangers.
According to the F.B.I., phishing, data breaches, and extortion made up most of the US$16 billion in losses to cybercrime last year in the U.S. alone. (Seniors suffered the most, losing nearly US$5 billion.)
The Stingray team is trying to tackle that problem through our completely free, available now Chrome browser extension. Check out our co-founder @imackinn's post below for more technical details.
We're also working on Safari (desktop) and iOs (iPhone, iPad) versions. More on those later.
@imackinn @andrewdilts That FBI stat is terrifying. Glad someone is building a free tool to push back.
@masump It certainly is terrifying ... and also according to the FBI, that's a 33% increase in losses from the year before. So the problem is only getting worse, particularly as scammers are now enabled by A.I. dev tools. Any comments you have on how we can make Stingray even better are welcome!
Hey Everyone,
Excited to share Stingray Security, our new Chrome extension that brings real-time phishing and scam detection directly into the browser.
What makes Stingray interesting technically is that it runs an AI-agent on-device, which means it can detect 0-day phishing pages or malicious crypto trading platforms even before they’re reported even if you're the first victim to land on it.
We combine several layers:
Domain intelligence (age, hosting, DNS, trust signals): For popular sites, we just toss up a "green light". If we don't recognize the domain, we check with our backend to see what it says.
Deep learning models trained on real phishing and crypto scam pages: If we don't know about the domain, we run a local check to see how its suspicious it is right in your browser. Kicking up to our backend only if something is flagged.
Context-aware analysis of rendered HTML and link structures
In-page safety overlays that guide users right where the risk is (e.g. login and payment fields) Get feedback on good pages, not just the bad.
The goal is to make phishing protection feel less like an add-on and more like an AI co-pilot that quietly guards every page interaction you have and gives a stoplight signal nudge to let you know how safe a page is.
We're going to great lengths to preserve privacy along the way and happy to answer any questions about that.
Ian
Stingray is a great product made by a world class engineer solving a very important problem. Everyone should be using it.
@chrishobbsttt Well I have never been called a world-class engineer before! Kidding - I know you're talking about @imackinn here. :)
Thanks for the shout-out!
OpenRep
@anthony_green2 Many thanks! Always glad to hear the positive reviews and adoption. Anything you think Stingray needs to improve? Next features?
Stingray's technical co-founder @imackinn (Waterloo & Stanford alum) is doing an AMA today - head on over to hit him with hard questions or ask him about his record-breaking TikTok:
https://www.producthunt.com/p/stingray-security/i-m-the-technical-co-founder-of-stingray-ama
Swytchcode
Congrats on your launch team! It looks like a great product. I'll give it a try
Hey Ian, before I download want to ask, what permissions would I need to allow the extension?
@sanket_mittal it heeds all_hosts which allows it to read your browsing. Google vets these permissions tightly for obvious reasons but to see if there's a threat we really need to look at page contents. We don't store your browsing and don't track domain requests. The only time our backend knows a site you've visited is if you manually report a page, scan one, or if our automated detection finds a phishing site.
Have we mentioned that Stingray won the ScamShield investor protection challenge?
Frustrated with “devastating” and ever-increasing losses from online scams, a Canadian securities commission, police service, and police foundation teamed up to present an innovation challenge to tackle crypto investment fraud.
We’re pleased to announce that of dozens of submissions worldwide, Stingray took home first place.
Here’s the news release, if you’re interested.
Everyone deserves to feel safe online.
But we’re not done yet: we’d love your feedback on Stingray’s product to date.
We interrupt Stingray’s Product Hunt launch for some breaking news: you died!
Or at least that’s what your family members are saying.
Or at least that’s what a sophisticated group of cybercrime phishing scammers are telling users of LastPass, the password management tool, that their family members are saying.
LastPass users were told a family member claimed the user had died, was trying to recover the user’s login credentials, and the only way to stop the family member was for the user to provide their LastPass master password.
Of course, this was all a scam.
It didn’t stop there: the phishing emails went by individualized links. If a user clicked on the link, the scammers followed up directly with a phone call, urging prompt action.
We’ve posted more information on our LinkedIn profile, if you’re curious.
We’ve built Stingray to help stop scams like this. Have a look at our promo video to see how it works, or try it by download now from the Google Chrome store - completely free, no passwords or credit cards required.
We’d love your feedback.
I know the team behind this product and know I can trust them with such an important security feature. Downloaded and active in my browser...
@darylhatton Appreciated, thank you! We welcome all feedback.