Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.
You hardly need telling that scams, fraudulent cyber attack s, whatever you want to call them have been increasing in volume over the last few months. If you do, then that’s precisely what Google’s vice-president for trust and safety, responsible for leading the global team protecting users from such abuse, has done in a Nov. 14 posting to Google’s safety and security news pages.
Impersonation scams are nothing new, but they have been getting increasingly more sophisticated thanks to the addition of AI in creating them. “These impersonations often promote fraudulent offerings ranging from high-return investments to fake giveaways and harmful apps,” Richardson said, adding that they are increasingly complex, “blending traditional impersonation and investment fraud, while attempting to exploit multiple products as part of a single campaign.
Google has also been analyzing a cloaking trend that redirects users via tracking templates from an advert to a scareware site, for example. Once again,, but scammers are not known for following the rules, it has to be noted. The official Google advice is to take note of the URL displayed before clicking and double-checking the page you end up on. Enabling Enhanced Protection in Google Chrome is also recommended.
“We should expect Google to protect its ranking algorithms from outside manipulation such as cloaking,” Dr Martin Kraemer, a security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, said, “however, even when Google has increased the robustness of its algorithms, we must understand that cybercrime syndicates are run as professional enterprises that enter a constant battle with defenders of organizations.
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