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"Malvertising" and Stolen Background Check Data

Hacker And The Fed

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Google Sponsored Links for Malware Sites

A Google search for Visual Studio download on Thursday morning sent them to a site that was marked malicious by only one endpoint provider at the time. But then by Thursday night, it was marked by 43 different anti-malware engines. The author also went on to say that he searched for different software and Google sponsored links for known malware sites came back. "They may want to really consider adding some people to their Google ads network," says McBride.

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