For several hours Saturday, sites or pages referred by bit.ly were blocked by Google and even on Mozilla's Firefox browser, though Bitly said the issue has been resolved.
"We are aware of some intermittent issues with Chrome + Firefox. Our team is investigating the issue to solve ASAP!" Bitly said on its Twitter account Saturday night, PHL time.
It said it was "incorrectly listed" in Google Safebrowsing, which caused users to receive a malware warning.
But it maintained the issue "has been resolved."
It added no data or Bitlinks had been compromised.
Google's diagnostic page for bit.ly indicated the site "is not currently listed as suspicious."
But it said part of the site was listed for suspicious activity 31 times over the past 90 days.
"Of the 91856 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 721 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on (Oct. 25), and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2014-10-25," it said.
It said the malicious software includes 200 Trojan(s), 187 exploit(s), 151 scripting exploit(s). "Successful infection resulted in an average of three new process(es) on the target machine," it said.
Tech site The Next Web said the fact that Google was not alone in blocking the links, "this suggests that there could be something a little more malicious going on from Bitly’s side, with a higher-than-usual number of miscreant sites using Bit.ly links to trick internet users." — Joel Locsin /LBG, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
