Today we're launching the
OrangeFren Plugin!
It's an extension for Chromium-based browsers that exists to
safe-guard users from accessing phishing scams aimed against the users of exchanges listed on
OrangeFren.comIt downloads a list of known phishing domains from
OrangeFren.com once an hour, as well as self-generates possible phishing domains and compares the websites you access against them. The extension is open-source and it does not save or transmit any of your activity.
You can get it here:
https://github.com/orangefren/OrangeFren-Plugin/releases/tag/v0.1Excellent initiative, well done!
Do you plan to create such a plugin for Firefox-based browsers? I assume you've chosen Chromium because statistically most users use it. However I believe most people who value their privacy use Firefox (or a fork like Librewolf, Waterfox etc...), it could be great to have access to both .
Other question, do you think it would be possible to add a suggestion to report to Google when a user visits one of the phishing links? This would allow a maximum number of reports, which could increase the chances of getting a “phishing warning” message displayed. I'm thinking of this:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/It would probably be difficult to motivate people to report the phishing link to the hosting provider (often done by e-mail and time-consuming), but reporting to Google Safe Browsing are quick and easy.
By the way, I maintain some lists of phishing copies that I frequently report when they remain online (for different websites), if you want I can share it with you from time to time in case there are some you don't have (perhaps via a PR on Github?).