HAWK EYES is a lightweight Chrome extension built for everyday browsing safety. Once installed, it works quietly in the background by sending the URL you are opening and part of the page HTML to the developer's detection service. That service runs a three-stage pipeline: it first checks a blacklist, then a whitelist, and finally analyses the page content and URL character patterns before handing the result to a machine-learning model trained offline to recognise phishing pages. If the model or the rules flag a risk, a red warning banner appears on the page.
Beyond the automatic warning, the extension puts control in your hands. Clicking the toolbar icon exposes site information such as the domain, organisation and registration year, and the same panel lets you check whether a URL carries phishing risk, report a suspicious URL, and search previously detected phishing URLs. The developer states that the only data retained server-side is a URL, and only when it has been identified as a phishing link.
The approach is grounded in published research: the team cites a 2021 survey of machine-learning phishing-detection solutions in Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction and a 2022 deep-learning phishing detection framework in IEEE Access. The extension ships in English, is around 77 KB, and is distributed free of charge through the Chrome Web Store.
