Google launched Chrome extension to blacklist malicious websites

Google presents Suspicious Site Reporter, a special permission for the Chrome browser, to help report unsafe websites.

An application will make it easier for Google Safe Browsing team to send malicious site messages so that experts can review complaints, analyze them, and blacklist sites on Chrome and other browsers that support the Safe Browsing API.

This API supported by not only mobile and desktop versions of Chrome, but also mobile and desktop versions of Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. In total, Safe Browsing protects about 4 billion devices, browsers and applications worldwide.

Suspicious Site Reporter adds a special icon to Google Chrome toolbar. While clicking on it, opens a pop-up window, through which users can submit an automatic complaint about the current site, which seems suspicious to them. In fact, user will pass specialists not only the URL itself, but also a screen shot, contents of the DOM (including full HTML) and information about the entire referral chain.

“If the site is eventually added to the Safe Browsing lists, you will help protect not only Chrome users, but also users of other browsers, and the entire Internet”, – write Google engineers.

In addition to the expansion Suspicious Site Reporter, Google experts have announced another innovation. Google Chrome 75 users will now have access to new security warnings that will appear when a person visits sites with suspicious and misleading URLs. For example, the site paypai.com is obviously trying to imitate paypal.com, go0gle.com emulates google.com and so on.

“The new alert mechanism compares the URL of the page you are currently on to the URLs of the pages you visited recently. If the URLs look similar and can mislead you, you will see a warning that will help you stay safe”, – explain experts.

Source: https://blog.chromium.org