How to Report Phishing and Malicious Websites in Google Chrome

This updated guide examines How to Report Phishing and Malicious Websites in Google Chrome and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

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This official new browser extension reports bad websites for Google Safe Browsing. This is a service that web browsers like Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox use to actively block malicious websites. When accessing a website, the browser checks to see if it matches the list of bad websites and gives warnings if found. You can view this as antivirus software with other definitions only that it blocks bad websites.

Previously, you could report malicious websites by visiting Google's Report Phishing Page page and entering the website address. You can still do the above but now with Chrome extension, this process will be much easier.

To use this extension, install Suspicious Site Reporter from the Chrome Web Store. After installing it, you can click on the flag icon on the toolbar to report the bad website.

• Download Suspicious Site Reporter

This extension will allow you to choose to share web site screenshots, DOM content (all HTML of the website) and how you handle that suspicious site. However, your website URL and IP address are required.

Google can use reports from Chrome users to actively block suspicious sites so people don't access that page anymore.

The company released this Chrome extension on June 18, 2019. This feature goes hand in hand with other improvements against scams on Chrome, including warnings about cryptic URLs like go0ogle.com in Chrome 75.