Security News > 2022 > July > Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’
Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery research papers and websites as malware.
Germany-based PhD researcher, Maximilian Golla of Max Planck Society was frustrated on seeing one of his Google Docs files restricted by Google.
BleepingComputer confirmed Google Search results for the ACM website, ACM Digital Library research papers, and contact pages are also treating links to ACM domains as malicious.
Acm.org links appearing in the results led to an "Interstitial" hosted on Google's redirection page, warning visitors that the link might be harmful.
Although the blocking of ACM links across Google Search and Drive seems erratic, this isn't the first time Google Drive has erroneously flagged materials for being in violation of its Terms of Service when there is none.
BleepingComputer has reached out to Google to understand what is causing the issue with ACM domains and we will update the story once we hear back.