Thursday, July 28, 2016

Fake Chrome "Urgent Updates"

A hacker(s) is trying to put nasty stuff on your computer by displaying what looks like a legitimate "Urgent Chrome Update" page on your screen.  The browser window looks like this (I cut of the rest of the Google icon):


Note the address:  definitely not Google.  

Fortunately, Google Chrome also shows a message at the bottom of the browser window:  


The web site from which this originates is detailed below.


This appears to have released in the last couple of days, though you never know.  Malwarebytes didn't detect anything.

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