Upcoming Google Password Alert 1.7 Update Could Disable Phishing Warning Feature

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Google Chrome browser's new Anti-Phishing Password Alert extension is in controversies right after its launch last Wednesday, but now the search engine giant has effectively pulled off Password Alert from its store.

Password Alert was not bypassed once, twice, but every time Google introduced a new updated version of the extension.

Google developed this Password Alert Chrome extension in an effort to alert Internet users whenever they accidentally enter their Google password on a carefully crafted phishing website that aimed at hijacking users’ account.

Here’s the worst part:

However, the first version of Password Alert was bypassed in less than 24 hours of its launch.

Security expert Paul Moore from UK-based Urity Group quickly circumvented the Anti-Phishing technology by pure JavaScript code of seven lines.

Since then Google released Password Alert version 1.4, version 1.5 and version 1.6, but…

...all of them were bypassed, keeping users unaware of falling victim to phishing attacks. The latest version 1.6 was bypassed by the researchers at software security firm Securify.

Upcoming Google Password Alert 1.7 Update

However, now Google has uploaded the source code for Password Alert version 1.7 on Github, first noticed and reported by Paul Moore.

The latest Password Alert update, which is yet not officially launched on Chrome Store, probably available for download in the next few hours.

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