Google Blogger Locked Legitimate Websites After Mistaking Them for Malware

Thousands of Blogger website owners woke up this week to a jarring surprise: their perfectly legitimate blogs had been locked and slapped with a “Malware and Similar Malicious Content” violation notice. The mass lockout, which began on August 4, 2026, triggered a flood of confused and frustrated reports across Google’s official Blogger Help Community, with users insisting their sites had never hosted anything harmful. The scale of the incident quickly caught the attention of Google’s own Product Experts, who help moderate the support forums. One expert, posting under the handle DarkUFO, confirmed what many suspected: this was not a coordinated crackdown on malicious blogs but a widespread misfire by...

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