Crypto phishing scams continue to drain wallets as a recent incident involves a fraud Google ad for “Soneium.” The ad led users to a fake website and potentially tricked them into connecting their ...

Sponsored content is everywhere online. From the top results of your search engine to the tempting deal you scrolled past on social media — it’s hard to avoid. While most sponsored ads are legitimate, ...

A legitimate-looking ad for Amazon in Google search results redirects visitors to a Microsoft Defender tech support scam that locks up their browser. Today, BleepingComputer was alerted to what ...

Some are seeing a super scary Google Ads phishing scam in the Google Search ads slots. When you search, sometimes a scam may come up, sending you to a Google Sites address that is not managed by ...

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this week, researchers at Infoblox, a threat intelligence firm, presented evidence that an organized crime group known as VexTrio is operating a traffic ...

In a shocking revelation reminiscent of Facebook's notorious metrics scandal of 2018, a recent report exposes Google's GOOG TrueView skippable in-stream video ads as potentially misleading advertisers ...

A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies. Recent Meta ads have included fabricated ...

For a glimpse of the AI-generated misery fast accelerating onto our screens thanks to developments in synthetic media that are powering ever more sophisticated forms of deception, check out this clip ...

YORK, Pa. — We're all looking for unique gifts for our friends and family this holiday season. Social media can be a great place to get ideas - until a scammer pops up on your feed. On Day One of our ...

Determining whether publishers are shady enough to be cut from the programmatic supply chain means grappling with shades of gray. But when a publisher is engaged in obviously illegal activity like ...