Threat Actors Distribute Their Malware Through Google Alerts

Threat actors continue to abuse Google Alerts to spread scams and promote malicious websites, however, the activity of the abuse has significantly increased in last couple of weeks. Threat actors disguise their sites using 'cloaking' technique - showing malicious content only to visitors and making themselves look legitimate to engine spiders. This websites often look as the typical blog posts to Google's search engine spiders but push malicious content to real users, such as promoting fake apps that instead perform background malicious activity. Read more...