PSA:

watch out for sponsored links on google

#CoSoSec

https://twitter.com/NFT_GOD/status/1614442000958324739

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2de6899bd6113a509bdb43be94030943edba8b11004d1b9687012a0e6724f986

^^^^

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results.

Notepad++, 7-ZIP and WinRAR, and the widely used media player VLC as well as CCleaner utility to name a few

Germán Fernández of cybersecurity company CronUp provides a list of 70 domains that are distributing malware through Google Ads search results by impersonating legitimate software

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CronUp/Malware-IOCs/main/2023-01-17_Arechclient2_GoogleAds

Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner

#CoSoSec

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-push-malware-via-google-search-ads-for-vlc-7-zip-ccleaner/