Due to Google’s own ad platform, threat actors are now able to produce phony Google Authenticator advertisements that promote the malware that steals personal information, DeerStealer.
Malicious advertising, or “malvertising,” has been aimed against the Google search engine for years. Here, threat actors post advertisements pretending to be well-known software websites, with the goal of infecting users’ computers with malware.
Worse, threat actors can now produce Google search ads that display authentic domains, lending credibility to the advertisement.
Threat actors developed advertisements for Google Authenticator in a recent malvertising campaign discovered by Malwarebytes, which appears when users search for the software on Google read more about Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware.
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