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Malicious Google ads sneak AWS phishing sites into search results
A new phishing campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) logins is abusing Google ads to sneak phishing sites into Google Search to steal your login credentials.
- February 09, 2023
- 01:37 PM
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Google Search results poisoned with torrent sites via Data Studio
Threat actors are abusing Google's Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to boost search engine rankings for their illicit websites that promote spam, torrents, and pirated content.
- November 18, 2022
- 09:03 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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15,000 sites hacked for massive Google SEO poisoning campaign
Hackers are conducting a massive black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign by compromising almost 15,000 websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums.
- November 09, 2022
- 01:08 PM
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Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams
A scarily realistic-looking Google Search YouTube advertisement is redirecting visitors to tech support scams pretending to be security alerts from Windows Defender.
- July 20, 2022
- 02:43 PM
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Beware: Malicious Home Depot ad gets top spot in Google Search
A malicious Home Depot advertising campaign is redirect Google search visitors to tech support scams.
- January 30, 2021
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Google search bug freezes tabs when using a custom date range
A bug in Google Search is causing a browser tab to freeze when searching between a specified range of dates.
- January 19, 2021
- 03:46 PM
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Google Search bug prevents new content from being indexed
Google Search is facing indexing issues on June 2, 2020 and the bug prevents users from discovering new content across the search engine.
- June 02, 2020
- 11:05 AM
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Google Advises Against Disabling Sites During the Pandemic
Google warns businesses against disabling their websites during the COVID-19 and, instead, recommends limiting their functionality to avoid being penalized in Google Search results.
- March 27, 2020
- 02:34 PM
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Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar
Google has started testing a feature that will display the search query in the Chrome address bar rather than the actual page's URL when performing searches on Google.
- January 29, 2020
- 01:10 PM
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Beware of Amazon Prime Support Scams in Google Search Ads
A malicious ad campaign is underway in Google Search results that lead users to fake Amazon support sites and tech support scams.
- January 10, 2020
- 03:08 PM
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Google Search Ads Infiltrated Again by Tech Support Scams
If you are planning on doing any shopping over the weekend, you may want to be careful when doing searches in Google. This is because scammers have infiltrated Google's ad network to redirect users to tech support scams when they click on popular search terms such as Lowes and PayPal.
- June 07, 2019
- 03:55 PM
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You're Not At Fault, Google Search Tripped and Broke Its Index
This is an article about a Google problem that most of you won't see until it is fixed. That is because Google Search is having a problem where new content is not being indexed in their searched results.
- May 22, 2019
- 12:21 PM
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Google Rolls Out Activity Cards to Help You Find Past Searches
Google is currently rolling out an activity cards feature teased in a September blog post and allowing users to see search results found in the past while searching for similar terms. Released for mobile web and Google app users.
- January 09, 2019
- 02:19 PM
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Using Google Knowledge Graph to Spoof Search Results
Google's Knowledge Graph, the informational panel displayed next to the results of popular search queries, can be spoofed to show arbitrary details, regardless of the input in the Google search box.
- January 09, 2019
- 01:47 PM
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Chrome 71 Released With Abusive Ad Filtering and Audio Blocking
Google has release Chrome 71 to the Stable desktop channel, which means it is now available for everyone to download. This version comes with a bunch of new features, with most of them focusing on protecting users from abusive ads, deceptive billing pages, and unwanted autoplay audio.
- December 04, 2018
- 03:00 PM
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Google Bug Breaks Search Results with a Plus Sign On Mac Safari (Fixed)
A bug in Google Search has been discovered that breaks search result links when using Safari in macOS if the link contains a plus symbol.
- October 01, 2018
- 05:54 PM
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Google Experiments With Showing Search Queries in Chrome 71 Address Bar
In Chrome 71, Google is performing an experiment where the browser will show a Google search query in the address bar instead of the Google search results URL.
- September 27, 2018
- 05:30 PM
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Google Testing Removal of WWW Subdomain from Search Results
Google really wants to get rid of the WWW subdomain. First we had Google removing WWW in the Chrome 69 address bar and now there is some test underway to remove it from search results as well.
- September 20, 2018
- 05:44 PM
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Google Rolls Out Mobile-First Indexing But Still Doesn't Split Search in Two
Google announced today a shift to "mobile-first indexing," a move which means that Google search crawlers will look at a site's mobile version before the desktop one.
- March 26, 2018
- 06:10 PM
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One In Every 200 Google Search Suggestions Is Polluted
One of every 200 Google search autocomplete suggestions are poisoned and are used to drive traffic to misleading sites, to malware, or other malicious content, a team of academics from three US universities has discovered.
- March 19, 2018
- 10:48 AM
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