Have you spotted malvertising in the wild?

Recently, a huge rise of malvertising (malicious advertising) has been spotted on Google Ads. Threat actors are purchasing Google Ads, typically putting more money behind it so it ranks higher than the actual companies they're mimicking, and getting users to click on their link.

But the link click isn't malicious in it of itself, they're creating nearly identical websites where the "software" they're offering is actually malware and users don't know until it's too late. The executable file is usually …

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