Pescatore

Pescatore is a lightweight, free security add-on for Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Edge. Its purpose is simple: while you browse, it inspects the address of the page you are on and reports whether that URL shows signs of phishing or other malicious intent. The detection logic is built on machine learning and draws on roughly ten distinct features taken from the URL string itself, so the check works even before a page has fully rendered.

A distinguishing design choice is that the extension deliberately ignores page content. It does not read text, images, or other material from the websites you visit in order to make its decision, which keeps the analysis narrow and focused on the address bar. The extension is distributed through the Chrome Web Store under version 1.24.1, is a small download, and is published in English by an independent developer who also hosts the source code and support channel on GitHub.

Pescatore is best understood as a free, community-style utility rather than a commercial security suite. It is aimed at individual users who want a second opinion on a suspicious link without installing a full endpoint protection product. Ratings on the store listing are positive, though the user base is modest, and updates should be expected to be infrequent given the small independent project behind it.