Etcher: Download links cause Google Chrome to alert about deception
Tried to download Etcher for OSX and received the following alert from Google Chrome.
ColdHeat
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Could you provide the exact version & link of the one that caused this to display?
jhermsmeier
on 25 Jul 2017
@jhermsmeier @jviotti @craig-mulligan
Yikes! I'm seeing exactly the same error (in Google Chrome Version 59.0.3071.11) for _any_ of the download links near the bottom of https://etcher.io/ :-( Looks like Chrome is being a bit over-zealous?
lurch
on 25 Jul 2017
I'm also seeing it with Chrome Canary, but not in Chromium. I've reported it as false positive now, sadly not much more we can do about it, I think. And I can't help but wonder who reported GitHub's release assets as phishing...
jhermsmeier
on 25 Jul 2017
Checking the domain that triggers the warning: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/#url=https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com
imrehg
on 25 Jul 2017
@jhermsmeier is it possible that somebody deliberately hosted malware on GH releases, and so Chrome (or its automated scanners) decided to throw out the baby with the bathwater and block the whole thing? :-(
lurch
on 25 Jul 2017
Should be resolved now.
imrehg
on 25 Jul 2017
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Should be resolved now.