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A phishing check that warns before anyone clicks

Ask whether each email you open is a phishing attempt, in a browser extension or a mail add-in, with a small model running on the same machine, and show a warning with the probability before anyone clicks a link.

Security and fraudIntermediate5 stepsSuggested by @biplov

The decision

A noul question: "this email tries to get the reader to reveal a password, pay, or open a file under false pretences". Optionally a choice over the kind: credential phishing, invoice fraud, impersonating a colleague, or none. The state is the sender, the reply-to address, the subject, the body and the real domain behind every link.

How to build it

  1. Serve a small model on the reader's own machine. After pip install systemonemodels "noulxp[export,onnx]": systemone pull supersonic-labs/julia-1 --dest ./models, noulxp export julia ./models/julia-1 ./julia-noulxp, then noulxp serve ./julia-noulxp. Mail never leaves the machine.
  2. Write a browser extension for your webmail, or an add-in for your mail client, that reads the open message and builds the state. Use each link's real domain, not its text.
  3. Send the request to POST /v1/systemone on port 8790. A page that calls from the browser needs its origin passed to the server with --cors.
  4. Above 0.8, show a banner: who the message claims to be from, and where its links really go. Never delete or block mail automatically.
  5. Test it on a folder of known phishing samples and a week of your own mail before you share it.

Make it better

Add a "report" button that saves the message and the reader's verdict. Those are labels: fine-tune on them, and the phishing aimed at your organisation in particular gets caught too.

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