If Google finds out that the landing page is bad, the campaign is stopped and the ads are taken down.ĪLSO READ: Victim Of A Cyber Attack? Now Dial 1930 To Register Complaint And Get Your Money Back

People who use a browser without an ad blocker to look for original software are likely to click on malicious links “because it looks so much like the actual search result.”Īs soon as a targeted visitor goes to one of these ‘disguised’ sites, the server sends them to the rogue site and from there to the malicious payload. Threat actors copy the official websites of the above projects and spread trojanized versions of the software when users click the download button.ĪLSO READ: India Is 3rd Worst Affected Country By Cyber Bullying, Here’s What You Should Know About ItĪdvertisers can use the Google Ads platform to promote pages on Google Search. NEW DELHI: Hackers are using Google Ads more and more to target people who are looking for popular software products.Īccording to reports, Grammarly, Slack, Dashlane, Audacity, ITorrent, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and more are among the software programmes that are being faked.

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