Malvertising in Google Search Results Delivering Stealers

Kaspersky observes a growth in malvertising activity that exploits Google search ads to promote fake software websites that deliver stealers, such as RedLine and Rhadamantys.

The treat actors create copies of legit software websites while employing typosquatting (exploiting incorrectly spelled popular brands and company names as URLs) or combosquatting (using popular brands and company names combined with arbitrary words as URLs) to make the sites look like the real thing to the end user—the domain names allude to the original software or vendor. The design and the content of the fake web pages look the same as those of the original ones. Threat actors then pay to promote the website in the search engine in order to push it to the top search results. The technique is called “malvertising”.

https://securelist.com/malvertising-through-search-engines/108996/

Malvertising in Google Search Results Delivering Stealers
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