A threat actor abuses Google Ads to distribute malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site, Malwarebytes reports (feddit.de)

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5535431

Original link: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/11/malvertiser-copies-pc-news-site-to-deliver-infostealer/amp

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker for this very reason.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but YouTube recommends not using one...

[-] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

Google does not have a handle on platform abuse for the past year or two. The cracks are starting to show.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Things like this happen and people still defend YouTube ads like they haven't been abused before.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

This is what happens when they automate everything. Its basically impossible to find someone in Google to talk to even if you spot an issue with their products.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Tons of obvious scam storefronts in the shopping results lately, too. (I mainly use it to compare prices and to try to find things that might be in local stores near me.)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Anyone else read that as “theatre actor”?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No, but now I'm envisioning some thesbian sauntering into your living room, fainting towards your USB port and giving a heartfelt soliloquy as the USB drive he just pushed in starts a hidden automated install.

Oh woe is you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I read "great actor" 😬

this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023

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