Google Pay-Per-Click Ads in Search Lead to download Redline, Taurus, Tesla & Amadey Malware

From gbhackers.com

Google Pay-Per-Click

The cybersecurity researchers have recently detected that the threat actors are now targeting the Google PPC to promote their malware like Redline, Taurus, Tesla, and Amadey.

In a report, the experts have declared that hackers are now abusing Google Adwords to promote malware via PPC (pay-per-click) ads on Google Search.

After the investigation done by Morphisec, they declared that the pay-per-click (PPC) ads in Google’s search results are leading users to download malicious packages of AnyDesk, Dropbox, and Telegram that are specifically wrapped as ISO images.

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