Cybercriminals launch new crypto scam using Google Ads
Cybercriminals deploy new crypto scams using Google ads to redirect users to phishing sites deceptively. A new type of crypto scam has surfaced recently, where scammers are buying ads for genuine crypto websites on Google, and then using URL injection to automatically redirect users to a malicious site once they click on the ad. The founder of DeFiLlama, a popular DeFi data aggregator platform, first reported the scam. According to his tweet, cybercriminals have bought a Google ad placeholder for DeFiLlama, which appears at the top of the search engine when you search from the platform. However, this is not a legitimate ad, as clicking on it leads users to a marketing website, redirecting them to a phishing site. There's a new crypto scam on google Scammers will buy an ad for a proper crypto website on google, with the proper URL Then when users click on it they get sent to an ad network (https://t.co/k5azsHhC2s) to track the click, but that network redirects to a sca...