May 28 / Admin

New Scam Alert: Fake Websites in Google Search Ads

Kaspersky Daily reported:   

Scammers are using Google ads to push fake versions of real websites – and they’re after business accounts and company data.

An even more intriguing twist on the same type of attack saw the cybercriminals leveraging Google Ads to promote fake versions of… Google Ads! The way it works is quite similar to how they go after Semrush credentials – but with one really interesting nuance: the website address shown in the fake Google Ads ad is exactly the same as the real one (ads.google[.]com)!

Find the original article here.

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