I encountered this, I had a cloud service that I had spun up services on with some DNS records pointing to, and then abandoned. The IP address was then used by malware, but because my DNS pointed to it, my whole domain got blacklisted.
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> Too many Microsoft shills here. Can you quote one of the shills? I see people saying that OP should verify that it's a false flag. Are those the shills to whom you're referring?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037323
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037211
And these ones showed up right after they posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037364
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037349
Edit: actually that first one was after they posted too? So their comment may not have been accurate the second they made it, but three comments defending microsoft's secrecy showed up in the next five minutes.
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#64I've seen someone with a similar experience to you (and also a SaaS) a few days ago: https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1574404009288425472 Not sure if they solved it, but might be helpful asking them.
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#65I love Smartscreen…
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The government desperately needs to step in and regulate these automated "destroy your business" practices.
Totally. It should be illegal for Edge, Chrome and other browsers to take any measures, such as a little warning, in an attempt protect users from malware. I see no way that getting the government involved in this could go badly.
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#67I'm so sick and tired of businesses abusing my trust and/or not publishing their security breaches that I'm using plus ('+') email addresses everywhere, i.e.: my_account+site_address@example.org for regular interactions, or: my_account+site_address-current_date@example.org for one-off interactions. Won't help with historical abuses/data breaches but it'll certainly be invaluable in the future.
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#68As has already been said, there's a chance that you are compromised and don't know. Obviously keep trying to contact MS, but in the mean time I'd make as much sure as you can that they don't have a legitimate beef. If you're willing to share more details about your site such as your tech stack, we can probably give you more specific advice beyond "check your logs for weirdness and hire a consultancy firm that deals w…
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#69Very important that you develop complete confidence that there isn't anything wrong with your product. It's not uncommon, in fact it's very common, for compromise kits for websites to take measures to avoid detection. A common one is only serving the malicious content when a specific referrer is present (I've seen this be Yahoo Search in the case of compromised Drupal installations multiple times, not really sure why…
In this case, Microsoft "SmartScreen" is a big culprit. Just google "microsoft smartscreen false positive". Tons of support forums on this including even some product companies explaining to their users on how to unblock because of false positives. It happened to some of our customers as well and it is very difficult to explain why we cannot do much except them asking to whitelist somehow or turning off this stupid t…
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does MS know they aren't hosting it on purpose? That might cause them to just change the malicious URL.
If you're hosting it on purpose, then you already know that it's the culprit and would've tried to change it anyways. I don't really see a scenario where telling the person who opened the ticket what the issue is would weaken the security measures or detection strategy.