Zak Doffman has covered security, surveillance and privacy on Forbes since 2018, focusing on the latest updates from the world’s largest tech companies, staying safe on smartphones and social media, and the dangers of AI.
Updated on November 7 with new government cybersecurity agency guidance on malware infecting legitimate online ad campaigns.
Check consistency between website names and the names that appear in popups, payment processing windows and the URL. This specific campaign infected legitimate websites and then redirected elsewhere Users of all major browsers fall victim to such attacks. The research team warns that “Phish ’n’ Ships remains an active threat,” albeit Google’s takedown has “partially disrupted” its threat. “It’s unlikely the threat actors will pull the plug on their work without trying to find a new way to perpetuate their fraud.”
“While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share,” Malwarebytes says, “crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. One particularly interesting detail is how a phishing website created barely two weeks ago is already indexed and displayed before the official one.”This dangerous new campaign has managed to inflate search signals for new, malicious sites, tricking users into clicking high-up search results for common keywords.
The worry for users will be the surge soon expected in AI based search, which is not only a threat to established search engines but also to users who don’t have the long-term defense mechanisms and ‘spidey senses’ to see attacks coming. Ironically, we’ve also just seenAnother serious website fraud warning has been issued in the wake of this report from Human’s Satori researchers.
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