Hackers are using malicious Google Ads campaigns to distribute malware by impersonating the KeePass password manager, according to cybersecurity researchers Malwarebytes. After creating a decoy website, hackers use an active Google Ads account to create an advert linking to the malicious site. They use Punycode, an encoding standard, to conceal the actual URL. Though Google has removed the malicious campaign, it is warned similar ones are still live.
Microsoft seizes 338 websites to disrupt rapidly growing ‘RaccoonO365’ phishing service
Giles Bruce reports: Microsoft has seized 338 phishing websites associated with a cybercrime service that targeted at least 20 U.S. healthcare organizations. Using a court order granted