A recent FBI public service announcement highlights that cyber criminals are using search engine advertisement services to abuse users’ trust of brands to direct them to malicious sites that deliver ransomware and conduct credential theft. At the end of this post, we’ll explain how you can start protecting your company’s network from this threat by signing up for a free trial of our zero-trust dynamic remote browser isolation and antiphishing software, ConcealBrowse.
Falsely-branded ads as the lure
According to the announcement, attackers are creating ads using logos and similar domains of trusted brands to trick users into clicking on the ads and visiting the malicious sites. A similar technique is often used in phishing attacks utilizing email as the attack vector. Since many antiphishing services already exist to protect users inside their email clients, this tactic is designed to bypass any checks done on email entirely. ...read more!
