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"Malvertising" and Stolen Background Check Data

Hacker And The Fed

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Google Ads

A simple domain change on one of these Google ads, I mean, that's something that should be catchable pretty easy. Is it because it's all automated and there's no human interaction or why do you think that's getting through? Even if it's 1% success rate, man, that's a lot of people that you're affecting. And these bad guys are, you know, they're getting better and better with this too.

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Speaker 2
But a simple domain change on one of these Google ads, I mean, that's something that should be catchable pretty easy. Is it because it's all automated and there's no human interaction or why do you think that's getting through?
Speaker 1
Well, I'm sure that Google has some policies and some tests and checks in place to try to identify somebody's spoof domains or somebody's a valid domains. But the reality is that it's no longer in 1998. You know what I mean? Google has become such a massive infrastructure and their Google ads is like number one on the planet. So it's dealing with probably billions of impressions a day. Listen, it makes sense to me why they're kind of missing some of this stuff. And I'm sure they catch a lot of others. But even if it's 1% success rate, man, that's a lot of people that you're affecting. And these
Speaker 2
bad guys are, you know, they're getting better and better with this too. You know, oh, yeah, I know we were approached to help a guy who his whole business was to circumvent Google rules in order to get banned ads on the Google ads. We just we passed. We said, no, thank you. That's not something we want to be a part of. Yeah,
Speaker 1
no, because you know, at the end of the day, you can just get sued by Google, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2
Take suing out of it. Just it didn't didn't sit well with us. So that, you know, we don't get involved in things that don't sit well with us. So oh,
Speaker 1
yeah, there's there's also the ethical problem, right? So I completely get that. But yeah, it's a major issue. And the one the one recommendation will make for the audience here is that Google is great. Google ads are great. They work. But instead of clicking on the ad, you know, for let's say VLC or OBS, so some software you need, just go to the vendor's website directly. That'll help you mitigate a lot of this. A lot of these stories for sure. But here's the thing too, right? The one thing I'll say is, is going to take a bit of training because some of the Google ads looks like they're legitimate search results. So that's another thing to take into
Speaker 2
account.

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