Attackers are infiltrating your Google search results with money-stealing ads
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Doing a search online? Watch out for fake Google ads promoting criminal sites that can steal your money and passwords.
Researchers are turning up round after round of these fake ads roosting at the top of your search results. And in one case, the thieves hacked someone's accounts and helped themselves to a "life-changing" amount of digital money.
It's not just digital money at risk. We show you how the scheme works in this episode of Cyber Tricks Revealed.
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Story originally published January 31, 2023.
See print version here at Ampyx News (formerly called Ampere News).
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