You should think twice before clicking on ads — even on Google Search – Tom’s Guide
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In addition to cyberattacks, phishing attacks and malicious apps, cybercriminals can also abuse Google Ads to trick users into falling for their schemes.
As reported by BleepingComputer, if you searched for ‘GIMP’ on Google last week you may have seen an ad for the official website of the popular Photoshop alternative. However, this was actually a fake ad used to infect visitors with the VIDAR info stealing trojan.
Besides earning a spot among the best photo editing software, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is also open source and can be downloaded for free. Its official website is ‘GIMP.org’ and despite being a malicious ad, the fake ad spotted by BleepingComputer showed the correct web address.
If a user clicked on the ad (which has since been removed), they were taken to a phishing page that closely resembled GIMP’s official site. While they thought they were downloading the actual program, the fake site instead delivered a malicious file called ‘…
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