AdWords Exploited By Malicious Hackers
A security consultancy group has recently discovered that some ads promoted through the popular AdWords program were actually attempting to infect the reader with a backdoor program and install a keylogger. The exploit in use was in fact rather outdated, but the hackers relied on the users not patching up their systems to be protected.
To see how the security team discovered this exploit see the clip below:
The real threat to the user was the fact that the malicious page was only a hop. After attempting to install the malware the link redirected the user to a legitimate page. Also the response from Google has been swift, but not totally convincing. They banned the offending account, but something tells me that there are more of this sort of malicious sites out there. AdWords ads have just lost a great deal of trust.
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