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Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner

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Jan. 17, 2023, 11:09 p.m. | Ionut Ilascu

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Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. [...]

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