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On Google Hacks and Product Pitches

Researchers discovered a scheme whereby hackers registered a domain, smarttracker.org, and opened a Google Adwords account. On certain searches, results were engineered so that a trusted hyperlink like the Better Business Bureau would be displayed in the Adwords space. But when a user clicked on that link, they were first redirected to a link, which attempted to insert a keylogger on the user’s machine. As of this writing, there was no news on Google’s site about the scheme; Google has terminated the account.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2135636/on-google-hacks-and-product-pitches.html

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