Malvertising campaign MasquerAds abuses Google Ads
Guardio Labs researchers uncovered a malvertising campaign, tracked as MasquerAds and attributed to a threat actor known as Vermux, that is abusing Google Ads to target users that are searching for popular software. ... “Yet, the moment those “disguised” sites are being visited by targeted visitors (those who actually click on the promoted search result) the server immediately redirects them to the rogue site and from there to the malicious payload — usually also hiding inside reputable file sharing and code hosting servers like GitHub, dropbox, discord’s CDN, etc.” Malware: Vermux [View Article](https://securityaffairs.com/140127/cyber-crime/malvertising-campaign-google-ads.html)