To report a phishing page you found in Chrome, send its address to Google Safe Browsing, the service behind Chrome’s red “Dangerous site” warnings:
- Copy the full address of the suspicious page from Chrome’s address bar. Do not type anything into the page itself.
- Open Google’s form Report a Page to Google Safe Browsing.
- Paste the address into the form and submit it.
- Close the suspicious tab.
Google says Safe Browsing crawls and analyzes the web to find harmful sites and adds them to its lists, and Chrome checks those lists when people visit a site. That is described in Google’s help page Choose your Safe Browsing protection level in Chrome.
If you already typed a password or card number
Reporting the page does not undo what you entered. Change that password straight away on the real site, and on every other site where you used it. Our guide to a compromised password walks through it. If you entered card or bank details, contact your bank using the number on your card, not any number the page showed you.
Report a harmful extension
Each extension’s page in the Chrome Web Store has a Flag concern link:
- Open the extension’s listing in the Chrome Web Store.
- Select Flag concern.
- Under “Issue reason”, choose the one that fits, such as Felt suspicious or Not trustworthy.
- Select Submit.
Then remove the extension. Google’s steps in Install and manage extensions: right-click the extension’s icon to the right of the address bar and select Remove from Chrome. If you cannot find the icon, select More (the three dots), then Extensions, then Manage extensions, select Remove on the extension and confirm with Remove. You can also paste chrome://extensions into the address bar.
If Chrome warned about a site you own
If Chrome shows a warning on your own site or software, the report form is not the fix. Google’s page Manage warnings about unsafe sites tells site owners to fix the problem and request a review, and points software publishers to its guidance on resolving malware issues with downloads.
Make sure Chrome is warning you
Safe Browsing is on by default. To check, paste chrome://settings/security into the address bar and make sure Standard protection or Enhanced protection is selected. Our guide to Chrome Safe Browsing explains what each warning means.