{"id":242288,"date":"2026-08-06T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/google-blogger-locks-hundreds-of-blogs-in-malware-false-positive"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:35","slug":"google-blogger-locks-hundreds-of-blogs-in-malware-false-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/google-blogger-locks-hundreds-of-blogs-in-malware-false-positive","title":{"rendered":"Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-blogger-locks-hundreds-of-blogs-in-malware-false-positive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has locked hundreds of Blogger websites after a false positive claimed they violated its \u201cMalware and Similar Malicious Content\u201d policy, with some sites actually deleted from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The issue began on August 4, and it appears to affect many legitimate blogs that do not host malware or have malicious scripts.<\/p>\n<p>As seen by BleepingComputer, hundreds of web admins have reached out to Google on the company\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/blogger\/thread\/457259506\/august-4-2026-false-positives-for-malware-and-similar-malicious-content-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official forum<\/a> for help in restoring access to their blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has locked hundreds of Blogger websites after a false positive claimed they violated its \u201cMalware and Similar Malicious Content\u201d policy, with some sites actually deleted from the platform. The issue began on August 4, and it appears to affect many legitimate blogs that do not host malware or have malicious scripts. As seen by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}