Comment by ThePhysicist

5 years ago

So, essentially they let someone host malicious content on their CDN, which led to Google blocking it. I don't see the scandal here. Also, it seems Google fixed the issue within 2 hours, which is quite good TBH.

There are many open-source & commercial IOC lists in distribution from vendors like Crowdstrike, Team CYMRU etc., a lot of them are being fed into SIEM systems, firewalls and proxies at companies. If you happen to end up on one of these lists it can take months or years to clear your reputation.

If you're going to comment that they did something wrong, you should consider reading the article and notice that the safe browsing flag didn't mention a URL and the block was removed without any follow-up once they requested the removal.