What is a Google Blacklist

Most of today’s popular browsers will present the user with their own unique variation of a site being blacklisted for malware. The above images represent some of the more popular browsers and the warnings you can come to expect when a site is blacklisted for distributing malware. The red splash page takes up the entire view and is designed to protect and deter the user from proceeding.

The following are warning messages reserved for malware blacklists

• The Website Ahead Contains Malware!
• Danger: Malware Ahead!
• The site ahead contains harmful programs
• The site ahead contains malware
• Reported Attack Page!
• Suspected Malware Site
• This website has been reported as unsafe

Not all messages above are from Google, and not all browsers using the Google blacklist API. Each of the warnings, however, is designed to inform you that the website has been hacked and blacklisted because it is being used to distribute malware.

Originally published at sucuri.net on January 2, 2018.