Should I be worried?

whitesatin

Last night and this morning, on different sites, a red screen came up with Phishing Attack Ahead, warning that someone might try to steal my info. I copied the following: convusmp.admailtiser.

It offered me to go back to safety but I just pressed the back button and got off the sites quickly.

Mine is a Samsung Chromebook whch, I am pretty sure, has its own virus scanner.

Anyone had this happen?

Newby222

Hi, I have the same thing happening since last night, just had two a few moments ago, one when I was browsing on Ebay and the another on House of Fraser. I use google chrome on a desktop.I clicked on 'back to safety' and it took me back to the page I was viewing. I think it might be an attack on google? I was afraid of logging in those sites in case my passwords were stolen.

whitesatin

Newby222 wrote: »

Hi, I have the same thing happening since last night, just had two a few moments ago, one when I was browsing on Ebay and the another on House of Fraser. I use google chrome on a desktop.I clicked on 'back to safety' and it took me back to the page I was viewing. I think it might be an attack on google? I was afraid of logging in those sites in case my passwords were stolen.

Thanks for posting. The first site, last night, was a forum, the second, this morning was Ebay too.

I hate it when things like that happen.

badger09

Me too.

Happened last night and again about 10 minutes ago when I clicked the link in this post

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5107447

Red screen message reads
'Phishing Attack Ahead. Attackers on match.basebanner.com might try to trick you to steal your information (for example passwords, messages or credit cards'

Using Chrome on a Dell Laptop.

Any ideas?

dogmaryxx

It's only a new warning display from Google Chrome.Not sure if its in the latest stable release or confined to the Canary and Dev builds as I use Aviator.

If you click “details” you are given the option to bypass the warning and proceed to the unsafe site, but only after you acknowledge the risk.

badger09

dogmaryxx wrote: »

It's only a new warning display from Google Chrome.Not sure if its in the latest stable release or confined to the Canary and Dev builds as I use Aviator.

If you click “details” you are given the option to bypass the warning and proceed to the unsafe site, but only after you acknowledge the risk.

That sounds vaguely reassuring but how does one know how 'unsafe' those sites might be? And why has it only recently started happening?

bashedup

I've been getting the same behaviour since last night - on store.microsoft.com and on ebay. I had a go using Internet Explorer to try and order what I needed from the MS store, but it was impossible to get through the checkout - the links ended up hanging and not displaying a page or any sort of error. I've done a full scan of my OS (with MS Security Essentials) which came up with nothing so I put it down to an attack on the sites, but I'm not totally sure about that...

It seems to be some sort of malvertising/malware. I'm currently uninstalling Flash and Java since I updated both recently and can't see any new dodgy programs in my installed items list/dodgy executables or services running.

It looks like cross-site scripting being attempted, by some of the entries in the browsers activity log:

lulu_92

I got this earlier when comping. Only clicked through once and everything seems ok..

Terry98

bashedup wrote: »

I've been getting the same behaviour since last night - on store.microsoft.com and on ebay. I had a go using Internet Explorer to try and order what I needed from the MS store, but it was impossible to get through the checkout -

It seems strange that Google are saying the Microsoft sites are subject to phishing attacks!